The stains of culture
Subtitle: an ethno-reading of Karaite Jewish women
By: Ruth Tsoffar.
Series: Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Subjects: Purity, Ritual -- Karaites.; Karaite women -- Religious life.; Menstruation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: History, historiography, and the subject of truth; value: Shabbat, purity, and making love; value: Talking menstruation : the language of blood; value: Mother-daughter teaching; value: "Please, no handshaking" : quantifying the arbitrary body; value: The site of impurity; value: Resolution from within : the encounter between niddah and yoledah; value: Beyond binarism : mother's milk and Karaite dietary law.