Feminist rereadings of rabbinic literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | HBI series on Jewish women
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10962089 |
Table of Contents:
- Back to the breast: an aspect of feminine sexuality in the imagined world of the sages
- 2. Desire and dominion
- 3. "They let the children live": the midwives at a political crossroads
- 4. Judith, wife of R. Hiyya: a story of women's pain
- 5. The voice of doubt: the wife of R. Simeon ben Halafta and the uncanny
- 6. Open to conquest: prostitution, temptations and responses
- 7. Myth in the attic: the call of the deep
- 8. The creation of woman: men are from Babylon; women are from the land of Israel.