People of the Body

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People of the Body is written by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791411699 (ISBN 10) and 9780791411698 (ISBN 13).

By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies -- for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth-- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.