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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction Sex, Violence, Motherhood and Modesty: Controlling the Jewish Woman and Her Body
  2. Rachel S. Harris
  3. pp. 5-10
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  1. “Even Your Mother and Your Mother’s Mother”: Rabbinic Literature on Women’s Usage of Cosmetics
  2. Gail Labovitz
  3. pp. 12-34
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  1. Hair Covering for Single Women: A New Reading of Mizraḥi Halakhic Rulings
  2. Ilan Fuchs
  3. pp. 35-59
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  1. The Construction, Composition and Idealization of the Female Body in Rabbinic Literature and Parallel Iranian Texts: Three Excursuses
  2. Shai Secunda
  3. pp. 60-86
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  1. Seduction and Recognition in the Story of Judah and Tamar and the Book of Ruth
  2. Rachel Adelman
  3. pp. 87-109
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  1. Rape and the “Arab Question” in L.A. Arieli’s Allah Karim! and Aharon Reuveni’s Devastation
  2. Andrea Siegel
  3. pp. 110-128
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  1. Midrashic Bodies: Prostitution as Revolt in Chochana Boukhobza’s Un Été à Jérusalem
  2. Nathan P. Devir
  3. pp. 129-144
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  1. Female Grotesque: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli Woman’s Body
  2. Karen Grumberg
  3. pp. 145-168
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Resident Artist

  1. A Worthy Opponent: The Later Works of Janet Shafner and Shirley Faktor
  2. Judith Margolis
  3. pp. 169-182
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Reviews

  1. The Freedom to Write: The Woman Artist and the World in Ruth Almog’s Fiction (review)
  2. Yael Dekel
  3. pp. 183-185
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  1. Maidens Love Thee: The Religious and Spiritual Life of Jewish Ashkenazic Women in the Early Modern Period (review)
  2. Tamar Salmon-Mack
  3. pp. 186-191
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  1. Gender in Israel: New Studies on Gender in the Yishuv and the State (review)
  2. Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui
  3. pp. 192-195
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  1. Sweatshop Cinderella A film by Suzanne Wasserman (review)
  2. Hagit Cohen
  3. pp. 196-198
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  1. Gender and the Holocaust—New Research
  2. p. 199
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Contributors to this Issue

  1. Contributors to this issue
  2. pp. 200-202
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