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The passionate Torah : sex and Judaism / edited by Danya Ruttenberg.
LIBRA BM720.S4 P37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Sex.
- Sexual ethics.
- Modesty--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Modesty.
- Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Homosexuality.
- Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- I-It: Challenges
- 1 Sotah: Rabbinic Pornography? / Sarra Lev 7
- 2 Prostitution: Not a Job for a Nice Jewish Girl / Judith R. Baskin 24
- 3 Divorcing Ba'al: The Sex of Ownership in Jewish Marriage / Bonna Devora Haberman 36
- 4 The Sage and the Other Woman: A Rabbinic Tragedy / Aryeh Cohen 58
- 5 Intermarriage, Gender, and Nation in the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs 73
- 6 Good Sex: A Jewish Feminist Perspective / Melanie Malka Landau 93
- I-Thou: Relationships
- 7 The Erotics of Sexual Segregation / Naomi Seidman 107
- 8 Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through Ideological and Practical Reinterpretation / Haviva Ner-David 116
- 9 The Goy of Sex: A Short Historical Tour of Relations between Jews and Non-Jews / Wendy Love Anderson 136
- 10 A Jewish Perspective on Birth Control and Procreation / Elliot N. Dorff 152
- 11 Not Like a Virgin: Talking about Nonmarital Sex / Sara N. S. Meirowitz 169
- 12 Reconsidering Solitary Sex from a Jewish Perspective / Rebecca T. Alpert 182
- We-Thou: Visions
- 13 "Created by the Hand of Heaven": Sex, Love, and the Androgynos / Elliot Rose Kukla 193
- 14 Toward a New Tzniut / Danya Ruttenberg 203
- 15 On the Religious Significance of Homosexuality; or, Queering God, Torah, and Israel / Jay Michaelson 212
- 16 Heruta's Ruse: What We Mean When We Talk about Desire / Gail Labovitz 229
- 17 Love the One You're With / Laura Levitt 245
- 18 Eden for Grown-Ups: Toward a New Ethic of Earth, of Sex, and of Creation / Arthur O. Waskow 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780814776049
- 0814776043
- 9780814776056
- 0814776051
- OCLC:
- 276816817
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