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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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. |
Abstract:
"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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