Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / / Caroline Walker Bynum |
Autore | Bynum Caroline Walker |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 444 pages, 30 pages of plates ) |
Disciplina | 248.46 |
Collana | New historicism |
Soggetto topico |
Food - Religious aspects - Christianity
Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 Food habits - History - To 1500 |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
catholicism devotional practices eucharist fasting feminism feminist theory food studies food gender studies gender historiography history inedia medieval asceticism medieval religion medieval society medieval women middle ages miracles mysticism nonfiction piety religion religiosity religious studies religious vocation religious women renunciation saints lives saints stigmata symbolism western europe women and religion womens lives womens studies womens writing world history |
ISBN |
0-520-05722-8
1-280-07891-X 9786613520180 0-520-90878-3 0-585-32648-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Background -- Part II. The Evidence -- Part III. The Explanation -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Secondary Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778862403321 |
Bynum Caroline Walker
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 | ||
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Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / / Caroline Walker Bynum |
Autore | Bynum Caroline Walker |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 444 pages, 30 pages of plates ) |
Disciplina | 248.46 |
Collana | New historicism |
Soggetto topico |
Food - Religious aspects - Christianity
Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 Food habits - History - To 1500 |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
catholicism devotional practices eucharist fasting feminism feminist theory food studies food gender studies gender historiography history inedia medieval asceticism medieval religion medieval society medieval women middle ages miracles mysticism nonfiction piety religion religiosity religious studies religious vocation religious women renunciation saints lives saints stigmata symbolism western europe women and religion womens lives womens studies womens writing world history |
ISBN |
0-520-05722-8
1-280-07891-X 9786613520180 0-520-90878-3 0-585-32648-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Background -- Part II. The Evidence -- Part III. The Explanation -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Secondary Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817838703321 |
Bynum Caroline Walker
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 | ||
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Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791884703321 |
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818777003321 |
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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The maiden of Ludmir [[electronic resource] ] : a Jewish holy woman and her world / / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach |
Autore | Deutsch Nathaniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 296.8332092 |
Collana | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
Soggetto topico |
Women rabbis
Zaddikot |
Soggetto non controllato |
biography
charismatic leader community conversion diaspora europe feminism gender roles gender studies gender hasidic hasidism historical women holy women immigration jewish feminism jewish history jewish mysticism jewish women jewish judaica judaism kabbalah ludmir maiden of ludmir maiden marriage martyr migration modernity mysticism nonfiction ottoman empire palestine prophecy rebbe religion religious leaders religious women russia sexuality visions women and religion womens issues yiddishkeit |
ISBN |
0-520-92797-4
1-282-35623-2 9786612356230 1-59734-726-4 |
Classificazione | 11.26 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir -- 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure -- 2. Writing the Maiden -- 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden -- 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden -- 5. Birth and Childhood -- 6. Love and Death -- 7. The Maiden Possessed -- 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? -- 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir -- 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath -- 11. In the Holy Land -- Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden -- Afterword: Journey to Ludmir -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780449803321 |
Deutsch Nathaniel
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2003 | ||
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The maiden of Ludmir [[electronic resource] ] : a Jewish holy woman and her world / / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach |
Autore | Deutsch Nathaniel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 296.8332092 |
Collana | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
Soggetto topico |
Women rabbis
Zaddikot |
Soggetto non controllato |
biography
charismatic leader community conversion diaspora europe feminism gender roles gender studies gender hasidic hasidism historical women holy women immigration jewish feminism jewish history jewish mysticism jewish women jewish judaica judaism kabbalah ludmir maiden of ludmir maiden marriage martyr migration modernity mysticism nonfiction ottoman empire palestine prophecy rebbe religion religious leaders religious women russia sexuality visions women and religion womens issues yiddishkeit |
ISBN |
0-520-92797-4
1-282-35623-2 9786612356230 1-59734-726-4 |
Classificazione | 11.26 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir -- 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure -- 2. Writing the Maiden -- 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden -- 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden -- 5. Birth and Childhood -- 6. Love and Death -- 7. The Maiden Possessed -- 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? -- 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir -- 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath -- 11. In the Holy Land -- Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden -- Afterword: Journey to Ludmir -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823007303321 |
Deutsch Nathaniel
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2003 | ||
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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? [[electronic resource] ] : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Shaye J. D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 296.4/422 |
Soggetto topico |
Berit milah - History
Circumcision - Religious aspects - Judaism Women in rabbinical literature Rabbinical literature - History and criticism Jews - Identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
absence of circumcision
bekhor shor benediction benet berakhot bible blessing ceremony circumcision cultural history doctrine femininity feminism gender roles gender studies gender jewish circumcision jewish life jewish women jewish judaica judaism nonfiction orthodoxy rabbinics religion religious belief religious practices religious women rite ritual talmud theology torah tradition women and religion |
ISBN |
1-282-35628-3
9786612356285 0-520-92049-X 1-59875-589-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pt. I. Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- Pt. II. Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? four responses. The celebration of manhood -- The reduction of lust and the unmanning of men -- True faith and the exemption of women -- The celebration of womanhood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783319703321 |
Cohen Shaye J. D
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? [[electronic resource] ] : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Shaye J. D |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 296.4/422 |
Soggetto topico |
Berit milah - History
Circumcision - Religious aspects - Judaism Women in rabbinical literature Rabbinical literature - History and criticism Jews - Identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
absence of circumcision
bekhor shor benediction benet berakhot bible blessing ceremony circumcision cultural history doctrine femininity feminism gender roles gender studies gender jewish circumcision jewish life jewish women jewish judaica judaism nonfiction orthodoxy rabbinics religion religious belief religious practices religious women rite ritual talmud theology torah tradition women and religion |
ISBN |
1-282-35628-3
9786612356285 0-520-92049-X 1-59875-589-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pt. I. Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- Pt. II. Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? four responses. The celebration of manhood -- The reduction of lust and the unmanning of men -- True faith and the exemption of women -- The celebration of womanhood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809138303321 |
Cohen Shaye J. D
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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