People of the Body

<p>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.</p>