Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, Fall, Number 3 Spring/Summer 5760/2000. Special Issue on Motherhood.
Jerusalem: The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Indiana University Press, 2000. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, 288 pp. Very Good. Item #109028
Introduction: Mothers and Icons by Susan Sered. Articles are "'These are Our Labors"': Constructions of the Women Nursing Her child in the Mishnah and Tosefta," Gail Laboqitz, "'To Bear, To Teach': The Mother Image in the Song of Songs," Benjamin Segal, "Prophets in Their Own Land? Mother and Daughters of the Alliance Israelite Universelle," Frances Malino, "Equality and Ambivalence: The Political Repercussons of A.D. Gordons Maternal Ethics," Einar Ramon, "Millenarian Motherhood: Motives, Meanings and Practices among African Hebrew Israelite Women," Fran Markowitz, "Manuevering in a World of law and Custom:Maternal Transmission of Ambivalence," Tova Hartman Halbertal, "The Rabbinate versus Israeli (Jewish) Women: The Mikvah as a Contested Domain," Inbal E. Cicurel, "Art Essay: My Mother, the Saint," Judith Cohen Margolis, "Two Views of Marriage - Two Views of Women: Reconsidering 'Tav Lemetav Tan Du Milemetav Armelu,'" Susan Aranoff, "Two Poems," Berta R. Freistadt, "The Rape of Dna: On the Torah Portion of Vayishlah," Phyllis Chesler, "Reader Response: Reflections on the Suffering of Rayna Batya and the Success of the Daughters of Zelophehad," Brenda Socachevsky Bacon.
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