Balancing on the mechitza
Subtitle: transgender in Jewish community
By: edited by Noach Dzmura.
Contributors: Dzmura, Noach.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781556438134
Subjects: Transgenderism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Jewish transgender people -- Religious life
Description: "While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, many transgender and gender-variant people sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza gives voice to this movement in Jewish culture"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Abandonment to the body's desire / Rachel Pollack; title: Hoowahyoo? / Kate Bornstein; title: The trayf Jew / Chav Doherty; title: Transparent on high / Maggid Jhos Singer; title: Lech lecha! / Eliron Hamburger; title: Crossing the mechitza / Beth Orens; title: Queering the Jew & jewing the queer / Ri J Turner; title: Spiritual lessons I have learned from transsexuals / Margaret Moers Wenig; title: The god thing / Joy Ladin; title: Ritual for gender transition (male to female) / Catherine Madsen & Joy Ladin; title: Narrow bridge / Aaron Devor; title: Yaʻamdu / Ari Lev Fornari; title: Hearing beneath the surface: crossing gender boundaries at the Ari mikveh / Tucker Lieberman; title: Hatafat dam brit (extracting a drop of blood) / Martin Rawlings-Fein; title: Becoming a good boy / Max Strassfeld; title: Opshernish / Tobaron Waxman; title: Self-portrait as pshat / Tobaron Waxman; title: Re-mapping the road from Sinai / Judith Plaskow & Elliot Kukla; title: Baruch dayan emet: translating death into life / Lynn Greenhough; title: Intersexed bodies in Mishnah (a translation) / Noach Dzmura (trans.); title: An ancient strategy for managing gender ambiguity / Noach Dzmura; title: Regulating the human body / Charlotte Fonrobert.