The passionate Torah : sex and Judaism /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2009. |
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| Description: | ix, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7715940 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Danya Ruttenberg
- I-It: Challenges
- 1. Sotah: Rabbinic Pornography?
- 2. Prostitution: Not a Job for a Nice Jewish Girl
- 3. Divorcing Ba'al: The Sex of Ownership in Jewish Marriage
- 4. The Sage and the Other Woman: A Rabbinic Tragedy
- 5. Intermarriage, Gender, and Nation in the Hebrew Bible
- 6. Good Sex: A Jewish Feminist Perspective
- I-Thou: Relationships
- 7. The Erotics of Sexual Segregation
- 8. Reclaiming Nidah and Mikveh through Ideological and Practical Reinterpretation
- 9. The Goy of Sex: A Short Historical Tour of Relations between Jews and Non-Jews
- 10. A Jewish Perspective on Birth Control and Procreation
- 11. Not Like a Virgin: Talking about Nonmarital Sex
- 12. Reconsidering Solitary Sex from a Jewish Perspective
- We-Thou: Visions
- 13. "Created by the Hand of Heaven": Sex, Love, and the Androgynos
- 14. Toward a New Tzniut
- 15. On the Religious Significance of Homosexuality; or, Queering God, Torah, and Israel
- 16. Heruta's Ruse: What We Mean When We Talk about Desire
- 17. Love the One You're With
- 18. Eden for Grown-Ups: Toward a New Ethic of Earth, of Sex, and of Creation
- Glossary
- List of Contributors
- Index of Sources
- Subject Index
