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Author:
Tsoffar, Ruth. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005044130
Title:
The stains of culture : an ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish women / Ruth Tsoffar.
Publisher:
Wayne State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
xv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Purity, Ritual--Karaites.
Karaite women--Religious life.
Menstruation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Contents:
Karaite history, historiography, and the subject of truth -- Shabbat, purity, and making love -- Talking menstruation : the language of blood -- Mother-daughter teaching -- "Please, no handshaking" : quantifying the arbitrary body -- The site of impurity -- Resolution from within : the encounter between niddah and yoledah -- Beyond binarism : mother's milk and Karaite dietary law.
Series:
Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
ISBN:
9780814332238
0814332234
OCLC:
(OCoLC)60742015
LCCN:
2005017431
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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