TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wasserfall,Rahel R.
TI  - Women and water: menstruation in Jewish life and law 
T2  - Brandeis series on Jewish women
SN  - 9781611688702
AV  - BM703 .W664 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Hanover
PB  - University Press of New England
KW  - Mikveh
KW  - History
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; An abbreviated history of the development of the Jewish menstrual laws; Tirẓah Meacham (le Beit Yoreh) --; Body language: women's rituals of purification in the Bible and Mishnah; Leslie A. Cook --; Yalta's ruse: resistance against Rabbinic menstrual authority in Talmudic literature; Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert --; Purity, piety, and polemic: Medieval Rabbinic denunciations of "incorrect": purification practices; Shaye J.D. Chohen --; Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah; Sharon Koren --; Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance; Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann --; Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control; Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper --; "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel; Lisa Anteby --; Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants; Rahel Wasswerfall --; The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings; Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun --; The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora; Janet Liebman Jacobs --; Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice; Naomi Marmon; 2; b
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