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Feminist rereadings of rabbinic literature / Inbar Reveh ; translated by Kaeren Fish.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: HBI series on Jewish womenPublisher: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 205 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781611686098
  • 1611686091
  • 1322242321
  • 9781322242323
Uniform titles:
  • Bi-fene ʻatsman. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feminist rereadings of rabbinic literature.DDC classification:
  • 296.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BM496.9.W7
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)761147

Translated from the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

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.

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Novel readings of rabbinic literature from the perspective of feminism and gender reading theories.