People of the Body

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: People of the Body
The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book
The Garden of Eden and Sexuality in Early Judaism
The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death, and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud
Mizvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Purifying the Body in the Name of the Soul: The Problem of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah
Images of God's Feet: Some Observations on the Divine Body in Judaism
God's Body: Theological and Ritual Roles of Shi'ur Komah
Naomi Janowitz
The Body Never Lies: The Body in Medieval Jewish Folk Narratives
The Jewish Body: A Foot-note
(G)nos(e)ology: The Cultural Construction of the Other
Zionism as an Erotic Revolution
Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel
Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture
Challenging Male/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition
Contributors
Index
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