Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature 1611688698, 9781611688696

Inner-Midrashic Introductions and Their Influence on Introductions to Medieval Rabbinic Bible Commentaries 3110213680, 9783110213683

The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in introductions to

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Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature 0226900533, 9780226900537

In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhi

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The Representation of Jewish Women in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature

This thesis analyses the representation of Jewish women in pre-revolutionary Russian literature, focusing on the period

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Masculine/Feminine : readings in sexual mythology and the liberation of women

Women's Studies / Feminist anthology

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Commonplace Divinity: Feminine Topoi in the Rhetoric of Medieval Women Mystics

This dissertation examines the works of five medieval women mystics—Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Angela of

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Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature 0802838081, 9780802838087

For years the image of "Celtic women" has been conjured as the totem of the emancipated female. Contemporary f

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Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature 0802838081, 9780802838087

Drawing on literary, mythological, legal, and historical sources, Peter Berresford Ellis sets out to explore the reality

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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion 9780062956040, 2020025857, 9780062956033, 9780063065130

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Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia 0822319438, 9780822319436

The essays in Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia challenge the idea that notions of modernity and colonialism

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The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature [Hardcover ed.] 0521843901, 9780521843904

This volume guides beginning students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical-interpretive and culture-critica

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