TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wegner,Judith Romney
TI  - Chattel or person?: the status of women in the Mishnah
SN  - 9780198021902
AV  - BM509.W7 W44 1988eb
U1  - 296.1230088042 22
PY  - 1988///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mishnah
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Women in rabbinical literature
KW  - Femmes dans la littérature rabbinique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Talmud
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-254) and indexes; Introduction; 1. Chattel or Person?; 2. The Minor Daughter; 3. The Wife; 4. The Levirate Widow; 5. The Autonomous Woman; 6. Woman and the Public Domain; 7. The Anomaly of Woman in the Mishnah; 8. The Mishnaic Woman and Feminist Theory; Appendixes; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules with a spiritual basis compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in the role of women. Both the property and the peers of men, in some circumstances women were considered to possess no powers, rights, or duties in law, and in others were judged morally, practically, and intellectually fit to own property, conduct business, engage in lawsuits, and manage their own personal affairs. Wegner spells out in detail these variations in status
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