Book Of Women
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al-jazzar
Anuario De Estudios Medievales
Author_Carmen Caballero-Navas
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Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
El Almendro
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female body knowledge
green
gynaecological practices
Gynaecological Texts
healthcare
hebrew
Hebrew Translation
HH
historical medical texts
ibn
Ibn Al Jazzar
Ibn Sma
Jewish Magic
Jewish Quarterly Review
Joseph Shatzmiller
kabbalah
Magic Squares
Medieval Hebrew
medieval Jewish medicine
medieval women's healthcare practices
Mediterranean cultural studies
Menstruating Woman
monica
Monica Green
Obligatory Heterosexuality
practical
Practical Kabbalah
Precious Knowledge
Shem Tov Ben
translation
Tzvi Langermann
Universidad De Granada
Uterine Suffocation
Vernacular Languages
women's health history
Women's Healthcare
Women's Love
womens
Women’s Healthcare
Women’s Love
Product details
- ISBN 9780710307583
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 2005. The first part of this book is an historical study of the Hebrew written production on women's healthcare and of Jewish women's lives and experiences regarding the care of their bodies during the late Middle Ages in the Mediterranean West. The aim is to restore value to feminine knowledge and practices that were significant then and remain so today. The second part presents an edition translated into English with commentary of the Hebrew compilation Sefer Ahavat Nashim, the Book of Women's Love. This was compiled in the late Middle Ages and is preserved in a single manuscript from Catalonia-Provence. Its contents are concerned with magic, sexuality, cosmetics, and gynecology - areas of knowledge essentially, though not exclusively, related to women. The author focuses on the relation between women and health care and examines both women's knowledge and knowledge about women. This pioneering work makes a valuable contribution to the history of Jewish culture and Jewish women during the Middle Ages, and also makes a substantial contribution to the history of medicine.
