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

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.

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• ISBN: 9780791411704
• Number of pages: 402
• Weight: 553g
• Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm