Menstrual Purity : Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender /
Perhaps more than any other aspect of rabbinic literature, the laws about and discussions of menstruation have polarized current discussions of gender relations in Jewish culture. Is the designated impurity of menstruation sexist? Or does ritual absence from sex during menstruation encourage a rhyth...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 FRAMING NIDDAH
- 2 THE WOMAN AS HOUSE: CONCEPTIONS OF WOMEN'S CORPOREALITY IN TALMUDIC LITERATURE
- 3 READING RUPTURES IN THE MASSEKHET/FABRIC OF NIDDAH
- 4 THE HERMENEUTICS OF COLORS AND STAINS: THE RABBINIC SCIENCE OF WOMEN'S BLOOD
- 5 WOMEN'S MEDICINE IN RABBINIC LITERATURE: BETWEEN FEMALE AUTONOMY AND MALE CONTROL
- 6 MENSTRUAL POLITICS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES
- GENERAL INDEX