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In the wake of the goddesses : women, culture, and the biblical transformation of pagan myth / by Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone,author.(CARDINAL)762653;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-281) and index.The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of misogyny in the Western religions. But how accurate are these current representations of the goddess in polytheism? And did Judeo-Christian religion really turn its back on women? These are some of the questions that scholar and feminist Tivka Frymer-Kensky sets out to answer in this iconoclastic study of gender in religions past and present. Her argument, illustrated with fascinating accounts of myth and ritual dating back to the early days of Sumer, Assyria, and Greece, is that although polytheism did accord females an important role, the strict division between male and female actually served to keep women in a subordinate position. The goddesses were progressively "ghettoized": their sphere was eventually relegated to home and hearth, while male gods took over as patrons of wisdom and learning. This dualism was displaced by the Bible, which embraced a surprisingly egalitarian view of human nature in which women were not considered to be inherently inferior. In a provocative work of biblical scholarship on gender and sexuality, Frymer-Kensky shows that the ideal of monotheism may offer far more to us today than a return to the gender-based worldview of the goddess religions.
Subjects: Goddesses.; God (Judaism); Women in the Bible.; Sex in the Bible.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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In our own voices : four centuries of American women's religious writing / by Keller, Rosemary Skinner.(CARDINAL)154791; Ruether, Rosemary Radford.(CARDINAL)126033;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-510) and index. Introduction : Gender and the multicultural worlds of women and religion in America / Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Catholic women / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Protestant laywomen in institutional churches / Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Jewish women / Ann Braude -- Black women / Emilie M. Townes -- Evangelical women / Nancy A. Hardesty -- Protestant women and social reform / Joanne Carlson Brown -- Women and ordination / Barbara Brown Zikmund -- Utopian and communal societies / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- American Indian women / Inés Maria Talamantez -- Growing pluralism, new dialogue / Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Subjects: Women in Christianity; Women in Judaism; Women in Christianity; Women in Judaism;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The receiving : reclaiming Jewish women's wisdom / by Firestone, Tirzah.(CARDINAL)649425;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278).
Subjects: Women in Judaism.; Jewish women; Feminism; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Jewish woman's book of wisdom : thoughts from prominent Jewish women on spirituality, identity, sisterhood, family, and faith / by Jaffe-Gill, Ellen.(CARDINAL)381381;
Subjects: Women in Judaism.; Jewish women; Feminism; Jewish meditations.; Judaism;
© 1998., Carol Pub. Group,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The women's Passover companion : women's reflections on the festival of freedom / by Anisfeld, Sharon Cohen,1960-(CARDINAL)672469; Mohr, Tara,1968-(CARDINAL)672470; Spector, Catherine,1978-(CARDINAL)672471;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Adaptations.; Haggadah; Passover.; Jewish women; Seder.; Feminism; Women in Judaism.; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Listen to her voice : women of the Hebrew Bible / by Raver, Miki.(CARDINAL)647076;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Bible.; Feminism; Judaism; Women in the Bible; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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God, sex, and women of the Bible : discovering our sensual, spiritual selves / by Labowitz, Shoni.(CARDINAL)635457;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
Subjects: Bible.; Women in the Bible.; Bible and feminism.; Sex in the Bible.; Feminist spirituality.; Feminism; Judaism; Feminism.; Women's movement.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Feeding the women of the Talmud, feeding ourselves : uplifting the voices of talmudic heroines, and honoring them with simple, vegan recipes / by Alfond, Kenden,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Feeding the Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves produces true food for thought by retelling the stories of 69 women in the Talmud and honoring them with vegan or plant-based recipes. Enjoy 69 delicious, balanced recipes ideal for family meals, entertaining, and healthy snacks. Each recipe is accompanied by stunning photography and meditations on stories of women in the Talmud that draw new meaning from the text. This community cookbook is the co-creation of 129 Jewish women from around the world. 60 Rabbis, Rabbinical students, Jewish teachers, and emerging thought leaders contributed to the Talmudic narratives, and 60 female professional chefs and passionate homecooks contributed to the recipes. The addition of this female-focused point of view to these women's Talmudic stories-which were recorded and edited by men-is a bright and encouraging testament to a modern generation of women engaging in Jewish learning"--
Subjects: Jewish cooking.; Vegan cooking.; Women in rabbinical literature.; Food; Cuisine juive.; Cuisine végétalienne.; Femmes dans la littérature rabbinique.; Aliments;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kantika : a novel / by Graver, Elizabeth,1964-author.(CARDINAL)363498;
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, Kantika―"song" in Ladino―follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way―a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge―her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old. Exploring identity, place and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body―in work, art and love―serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Religious fiction.; Novels.; Cohen family; Self-realization in women; Sephardim; Judaism; Arranged marriage;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 20
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Women's roles in religion / by Lüsted, Marcia Amidon.(CARDINAL)668047;
Includes bibliographical references (page 102) and index.Women and religion -- Before the twentieth century -- Liberation and changing roles -- Women and Protestantism -- Women and Catholicism -- Women and Judaism -- Women and Islam -- Women and alternative religions -- The future of women's roles -- Timeline.This book examines the roles women have played in religion in the United States, and how those roles have changed.
Subjects: Women and religion;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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