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Balancing on the mechitza : transgender in Jewish community
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Balancing on the mechitza : transgender in Jewish community

Author: Noach Dzmura
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2010.
Series: Io, no. 66.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
Summary:
"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.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Noach Dzmura
ISBN: 9781556438134 1556438133
OCLC Number: 437298761
Description: xxix, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Abandonment to the body's desire / Rachel Pollack --
Hoowahyoo? / Kate Bornstein --
The trayf Jew / Chav Doherty --
Transparent on high / Maggid Jhos Singer --
Lech lecha! / Eliron Hamburger --
Crossing the mechitza / Beth Orens --
Queering the Jew & jewing the queer / Ri J Turner --
Spiritual lessons I have learned from transsexuals / Margaret Moers Wenig --
The god thing / Joy Ladin --
Ritual for gender transition (male to female) / Catherine Madsen & Joy Ladin --
Narrow bridge / Aaron Devor --
Yaʻamdu / Ari Lev Fornari --
Hearing beneath the surface: crossing gender boundaries at the Ari mikveh / Tucker Lieberman --
Hatafat dam brit (extracting a drop of blood) / Martin Rawlings-Fein --
Becoming a good boy / Max Strassfeld --
Opshernish / Tobaron Waxman --
Self-portrait as pshat / Tobaron Waxman --
Re-mapping the road from Sinai / Judith Plaskow & Elliot Kukla --
Baruch dayan emet: translating death into life / Lynn Greenhough --
Intersexed bodies in Mishnah (a translation) / Noach Dzmura (trans.) --
An ancient strategy for managing gender ambiguity / Noach Dzmura --
Regulating the human body / Charlotte Fonrobert.
Series Title: Io, no. 66.
Responsibility: edited by Noach Dzmura.

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"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.

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