Author: Wasserfall, Rahel R.; editor:
Title: Women and Water : Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law
Description: Hanover [NH], Univ. Press of New England, (1999). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, vii,280 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers + appendice. Includes: T. Meacham "An Abbreviated History of the Development of the Jewish Menstrual Laws"; L.A. Cook "Body Language: Women's Rituals of Purification in the Bible & Misnah"; C.E. Fonrobert "Yalta's Ruse: Resistance Against Rabbinic Menstrual Authority in Talmudic Literature"; S.J.D. Cohen "Purity, Piety & Polemic: Medieval Rabbinic Denunciations of 'Incorrect' Purification Practices"; S. Koren " Mystical Rationales for the Laws of Niddah"; D.S. Perez & F. Heymann " Rabbis, Physicians, & the Woman's / Female Body: The Appropriate Distance";S.S. Sered; et al: "Talking About Miqveh Parties, or Discourses of Gender, Hierarchy & Social Control"; L. Anteby ""There's Blood in the House': Negotiating Female Rituals of Purity among Ethiopian Jews in israel"; R. Wasserfall "Community, Fertility, & Sexuality: Identity Formation among Moroccan Jewish Immigrants"; J. Allouche-Benayoun "The Rites of Water for the Jewish Women of Algeria: Representations & Meanings"; J.L. Jacobs "The Return to the Sacred: Ritual Purification among Crypto-Jews in the Diaspora"; N. Marmon "Reflections on Contemporary Miqveh Practice"; T. Meacham "Appendix: The Elimination of Niddah in Favor of Ziva; Retroactive & Internal Impurity & the Varieties of Blood".

Keywords: History of Religion, Judaism, Jewish Women, Ritual Purity, Menstrual, Menstruation, Miqveh Mikveh, Theology, Purification