Subjects: “…Talmud. Niddah Criticism, interpretation, etc.…”

Table of Contents: “…Sotah -- Relations between the sexes -- Marriage -- Rape and seduction -- Divorce -- Procreation -- Niddah -- Inheritance -- Testimony -- Ritual.…”

Table of Contents: “…Women and the Mitzvot -- Marriage -- Divorce -- The Agunah and the Yevamah -- Sexuality and marital relations -- Niddah: laws of the Menstruant -- Sexuality outside of marriage: incest, adultery, promiscuity, and lesbianism -- Procreation and contraception -- Abortion -- Rape.…”

Table of Contents: “…Chohen -- Mystical rationales for the laws of Niddah / Sharon Koren -- Rabbis, physicians, and the women's/female body: the approprate distance / Danielle Storper Perez and Florence Heymann -- Talking about Miqveh parties, or discourses of gender, hierarchy, and social control / Susan Starr Sered with Romi Kaplan and Samuel Cooper -- "There's blood in the house": negotiating female rituals of purity among Ethiopian Jews in Israel / Lisa Anteby -- Community, fertility, and sexuality: identity formation among Moroccan Jewish immigrants / Rahel Wasswerfall -- The rites of water for the Jewish women of Algeria: representations and meanings / Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun -- The return to the sacred: ritual purification among crypto-Jews in the diaspora / Janet Liebman Jacobs -- Reflections on contemporary Miqveh practice / Naomi Marmon.…”

Table of Contents: “…/ Graeme Auld -- The changing concept of holiness in the Pentateuchal codes with emphasis on Leviticus 19 / Jacob Milgram -- Sacred contagion / Mary Douglas -- Talion and purity: some glosses on Mary Douglas / Bernard Jackson -- The witness of times: an anthropologcal reading of Niddah / Adriana Destro -- 'But if it is a girl, she is unclean for twice seven days...' the riddle of Leviticus 12.5 / Jonathan Magonet -- Holiness and purity: the holy people in Leviticus and Ezra-Nehemiah / Hyam Maccoby -- A strange sequence of rules: Leviticus 19.20-26 / Calum Carmichael -- Interpreting Leviticus in the second temple period: struggling with ambiguity / Hannah K. …”