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Chattel or person? : the status of women in the Mishnah.

Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the property and the peers of men, in some circ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wegner, Judith Romney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1. Chattel or Person?; 2. The Minor Daughter; 3. The Wife; 4. The Levirate Widow; 5. The Autonomous Woman; 6. Woman and the Public Domain; 7. The Anomaly of Woman in the Mishnah; 8. The Mishnaic Woman and Feminist Theory; Appendixes; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.