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- People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective
- Book
- 1992
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion (discontinued)
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction: People of the Body
- pp. 1-15
- 9. The Jewish Body: A Foot-note
- pp. 223-241
- 11. Zionism as an Erotic Revolution
- pp. 283-307
- Contributors
- pp. 379-382
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438401904
MARC Record
OCLC
794701343
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No