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Author:

Baskin, Judith Reesa, 1950-

Title:

Midrashic women : formations of the feminine in rabbinic literature / Judith R. Baskin.

Publisher:

Published by University Press of New England for Brandeis university press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women in rabbinical literature.
Aggada.--Commentaries.
Midrash--History and criticism.
Feminism--Judaism.--Judaism.
Women in the Bible.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-212) and indexes.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Brandeis series on Jewish women

ISBN:

9781584651789 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1584651784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584651772 (cloth : alk. paper)
1584651776 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49225392

LCCN:

2002002979

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)