Brides and Blemishes: Queering Women's Disability in Rabbinic Marriage Law

Rabbinic literature situates marital intimacy at the nexus of desire and disablement. While analysis of disability in Jewish thought has primarily focused on the limits that disability places on men's capacity to fulfill specific religious obligations, a feminist intersectional analysis of disa...

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Main Author: Belser, Julia Watts 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 401-429
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