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People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective » (1st Edition)

Authors: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780791411704, ISBN-10: 0791411702
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: July 1992
Edition: 1st Edition

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: People of the Body	1
1	The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book	17
2	The Garden of Eden and Sexuality in Early Judaism	47
3	The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death, and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud	69
4	Mizvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth	101
5	Purifying the Body in the Name of the Soul: The Problem of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah	117
6	Images of God's Feet: Some Observations on the Divine Body in Judaism	143
7	God's Body: Theological and Ritual Roles of Shi'ur Komah	183
8	The Body Never Lies: The Body in Medieval Jewish Folk Narratives	203
9	The Jewish Body: A Foot-note	223
10	(G)nos(e)ology: The Cultural Construction of the Other	243
11	Zionism as an Erotic Revolution	283
12	Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel	309
13	Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture	329
14	Challenging Male/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition	361
	Contributors	379
	Index	383