Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law / / edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall ; contributors, Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun [and fourteen others]
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Women and water : menstruation in Jewish life and law / / edited by Rahel R. Wasserfall ; contributors, Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun [and fourteen others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Hanover, New Hampshire ; ; London, England : , : Brandeis University Press, , 1999 |
| ©1999 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 296.7/42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mikveh - History |
| Purity, Ritual - Judaism | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WasserfallRahel R. <1952-> |
| Allouche-BenayounJoëlle | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and water |
| ISBN: | 1-61168-870-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815310603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Brandeis series on Jewish women.