People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780791411704 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 402 str.

Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

Opis

By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies -- for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth-- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.