| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
HBI series on Jewish women
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HBI series on Jewish women.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Novel readings of rabbinic literature from the perspective of feminism and gender reading theories. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in rabbinical literature.
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Women in Judaism.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fish, Kaeren, translator.
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| Added Title |
Bi-fene ątsman. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1611686075 (OCoLC)877077817 |
| ISBN |
1322242321 (ebk) |
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9781322242323 (ebk) |
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9781611686098 |
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1611686091 |
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1611686075 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781611686074 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781611686081 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1611686083 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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