Midrashic women: formations of the feminine in rabbinic literature

Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matri...

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Main Author: Baskin, Judith Reesa 1950- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Hanover, NH [u.a.] Brandeis Univ. Press c 2002
In:Year: 2002
Series/Journal:Brandeis series on Jewish women
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Woman / Haggadah
B Feminism / Haggadah
B Rabbinic literature / Midrash / Woman (Motif)
B Jewish studies / Woman studies
Further subjects:B Midrash History and criticism
B Feminism Religious aspects Judaism
B Women in the Bible
B Aggada Commentaries
B Women in rabbinical literature
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Summary:Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-212) and indexes
ISBN:1584651776