Gender in Judaism and Islam :  common lives, uncommon heritage / 
edited by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Beth S. Wenger. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I. Comparative perspectives -- 1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference / Susannah Heschel -- 2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law / Amira Sonbol -- Part II. Limits of biology: bodily purity and religiosity -- 3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity / Marion Katz -- 4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- 5. Gender and reproductive technologies in Shia Iran / Soraya Tremayne -- Part III. Crimes of passion: formative texts and traditions -- 6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam / Lori Lefkovitz -- 7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities / Catherine Warrick -- 8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in Mandate Palestine / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Part IV. Cultural depictions of Jewish and Muslim women -- 9. A Literary perspective: domestic violence, the woman question, and the Arab question in early Zionism / Andrea Siegel -- 10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in Shoshanna Levy's life story / Orit Bashkin -- 11. An artistic perspective: the women of Bahram Beizai's cinema / Hamid Dabashi -- Afterword: Common ground, contested terrain / Joan W. Scott. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479823758 1479823759 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in Judaism.<br/>Women in Islam.<br/>Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.<br/>Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.<br/>Women and religion.<br/>RELIGION--Judaism--General.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM729.W6  / G46 2015eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.082