03157nam 2200577 450 991046084380332120200520144314.01-61168-870-1(CKB)3710000000537953(EBL)4227995(MiAaPQ)EBC4227995(OCoLC)932627039(MdBmJHUP)muse86676(Au-PeEL)EBL4227995(CaPaEBR)ebr11137056(CaONFJC)MIL881139(OCoLC)935254109(EXLCZ)99371000000053795320160114h19991999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWomen and water menstruation in Jewish life and law /edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall ; contributors, Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun [and fourteen others]Hanover, New Hampshire ;London, England :Brandeis University Press,1999.©19991 online resource (292 p.)Brandeis Series on Jewish WomenDescription based upon print version of record.0-87451-960-8 0-87451-959-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture.Brandeis series on Jewish women.MikvehHistoryPurity, RitualJudaismElectronic books.MikvehHistory.Purity, RitualJudaism.296.7/42Wasserfall Rahel R.1952-Allouche-Benayoun JoëlleMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460843803321Women and water2214138UNINA