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 .W66 1999eb
U1  - 296.7/42 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Hanover
PB  - University Press of New England
KW  - Mikveh
KW  - History
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Mikve
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Pureté rituelle
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Halacha
KW  - gnd
KW  - Judentum
KW  - Menstruation
KW  - Jodendom
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Menstruatie
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Provocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture
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