Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Biological Body -- Chapter 2. The (Un)covered and Altered Body -- Chapter 3. The Sex of the Body -- Chapter 4. The Intact Body -- Chapter 5. The Ailing Body -- Chapter 6. The Body in Need -- Chapter 7. The Mortal Body -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In The Jewish Body, Jütte has written an encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the present, covering everything from traditional body stereotypes--such as the so-called Jewish nose--to matters of gender, sickness, and health to the end of physicality and death
Notes
Translated from the German
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed December 1, 2021)
