Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law / edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
1999
BM726 .W37 1999 (Mapit)
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Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law / edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall.
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Imprint
Hanover, NH : Brandeis University Press, University Press of New England, [1999]
Copyright
©1999
Description
vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Brandeis series on Jewish women.
Formatted Contents Note
An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Tirẓah Meacham
Body language / Leslie A. Cook
Yalta's ruse / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Purity, piety, and polemic / Shaye J.D. Cohen
Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren
Rabbis, physicians, and the woman's/female body / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann
Talking about Miqveh parties, or discouces of gender, hierarchy, and social control / Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper
"There's blood in the house" / Lisa Anteby
Community, fertility, and sexuality / Rahel Wasserfall
The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria / Joëlle Alouche-Benayoun
The return to the sacred / Janet Lieban Jacobs
Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon.
Body language / Leslie A. Cook
Yalta's ruse / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Purity, piety, and polemic / Shaye J.D. Cohen
Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren
Rabbis, physicians, and the woman's/female body / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann
Talking about Miqveh parties, or discouces of gender, hierarchy, and social control / Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper
"There's blood in the house" / Lisa Anteby
Community, fertility, and sexuality / Rahel Wasserfall
The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria / Joëlle Alouche-Benayoun
The return to the sacred / Janet Lieban Jacobs
Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
BM726 .W37 1999
Language
English
ISBN
0874519594 cloth alkaline paper
0874519608 paperback alkaline paper
0874519608 paperback alkaline paper
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