Women and Water : Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wasserfall, Rahel R., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover : University Press of New England, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Menstruation.
Judentum.
Halacha.
Menstruatie.
Vrouwen.
Jodendom.
Purity, Ritual > Judaism.
Mikveh.
RELIGION / Judaism / General
Purete rituelle > Judaïsme.
Mikve > Histoire.
Mikveh > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws / Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh)
  • Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah / Leslie A. Cook
  • Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
  • Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices / Shaye J.D. Chohen
  • Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren
  • Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann
  • Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper
  • "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Lisa Anteby
  • Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / Rahel Wasswerfall
  • The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun
  • The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Janet Liebman Jacobs
  • Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon.

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