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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-

Series:

SUNY Series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion

SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Sex.

Human body--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Human body.

Purity, Ritual--Judaism.

Purity, Ritual.

Women in Judaism.

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438401904

1438401906

OCLC:

794701343