The stains of culture an ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish women / [Texte imprimé] :
Ruth Tsoffar
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, cop. 2006
- 1 vol. (245 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology .
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology (Wayne State University Press) .
Index
Bibliogr. p. 219-234
Karaite history, historiography, and the subject of truth -- Shabbat, purity, and making love -- Talking menstruation : the language of blood -- Mother-daughter teaching -- "Please, no handshaking" : quantifying the arbitrary body -- The site of impurity -- Resolution from within : the encounter between niddah and yoledah -- Beyond binarism : mother's milk and Karaite dietary law