Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-212) and indexes.
Contents
Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.
