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Menstrual Purity

Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender [Paperback]

by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

    • Author

      Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      January 2002

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      Perhaps more than any other aspect of rabbinic literature, the laws about and discussions of menstruation have polarized contemporary discussions of gender relations in Jewish culture. Is the designated impurity of menstruation sexist? Or does ritual abstinence from sex during menstruation encourage a rhythmic reaffirmation of conjugal intimacy? This text offers a new perspective on rabbinic discussions of menstrual impurity, female physiology, and anatomy, and on the social and religious institutions those discussions engendered. It analyzes the functions of these discussions within the larger textual world of rabbinic literature and in the context of Jewish and Christian culture in late antiquity. How did gender work - how was it made towork - in rabbinic literature? How did that literature dictate the place of women in Jewish culture? In search of answers tothese questions, the author analyzes the architectural metaphors deployed to describe female anatomy, arguing that this discursive construction operated culturally to associate women with the home and exclude them fromrabbinic study halls.The author shows that abbinic discourse is not completely controlled by rabbinic ideology, however. She analyzes talmudic discussions that allow alternative gender perspectives to emerge, indicating that women and their bodies were not completely objectified. The book concludes with a study of early Christian texts that relate to the same biblical laws on menstrual impurity as rabbinic texts.

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      • Author

        Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Stanford University Press

      • Published

        January 2002

      • Weight

        482g

      • Page Count

        344

      • Dimensions

        155 x 228 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9780804745536

      • ISBN-10

        0804745536

      • Eden Code

        1194607

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      • Author/Creator: Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert

      • ISBN: 9780804745536

      • Publisher: Stanford University Press

      • Release Date: January 2002

      • Weight: 482g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 1194607

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