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The article presents an analysis of contemporary Jewish fiction from the point of view that both writers and their Orthodox daughter protagonists can be seen as the inheritors and continuation of a literary tradition questioning roles, perceptions of and opportunities for Jewish women. In Rebecca Goldstein's "The Mind-Body Problem," Goldstein sets out to explore what she describes as the "mind-body problem," the dichotomy between being perceived as either attractive or intellectual when the two are polarized and seen as mutually exclusive. Her protagonist, Renee Feuer, is a graduate student in philosophy who comes from an Orthodox Jewish background.