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People of the body : Jews and Judaism from an embodied perspective / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, (c)1992.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 392 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438401904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BM720 .P467 1992
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Includes bibliographies and index.

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Content""; ""Introduction: People of the Body""; ""The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book""; ""The Garden of Eden and Sexuality in Early Judaism""; ""The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death, and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud""; ""Mizvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth""; ""Purifying the Body in the Name of the Soul: The Problem of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah""

""Images of God's Feet: Some Observations on the Divine Body in Judaism""""God's Body: Theological and Ritual Roles of Shi'ur Komah""; ""The Body Never Lies: The Body in Medieval Jewish Folk Narratives""; ""The Jewish Body: A Foot-note""; ""(G)nos(e)ology: The Cultural Construction of the Other""; ""Zionism as an Erotic Revolution""; ""Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel""; ""Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture""

""Challenging Male/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition""""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""

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