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| Introduction | |
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| The Mishnah as a Sociolegal Document | |
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| Why Chattel or Person? | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Chattel or Person? | |
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| Definition of Personhood | |
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| The Legacy of Scripture | |
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| Scripture's Taxonomy of Women | |
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| Mishnah's Taxonomy of Women | |
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| Ambiguity of Status: Effect on Woman's Rights | |
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| Exclusion of Women from the Public Domain | |
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| Chattel or Person? Sexuality as the Key | |
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| The Minor Daughter | |
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| The Minor Daughter as Chattel | |
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| Virginity and Bride-Price | |
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| Seduction and Rape: Criminal Penalties | |
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| Seduction and Rape: Civil Damages | |
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| Ambiguity of Status: Effect on the Minor Daughter | |
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| Minor Daughter's Lack of Basic Rights | |
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| The Minor Daughter as Person | |
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| The Pubescent Girl as Potential Woman | |
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| The Girlchild as Potential Adult | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Wife | |
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| The Wife as Chattel | |
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| Marriage: Acquisition of a Wife | |
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| Divorce: Disposition of a Wife | |
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| The "Straying Wife" as the Husband's Sexual Property | |
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| Wife's Vows Inimical to Conjugal Relations | |
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| Ambiguity of Status: Effect on the Wife | |
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| Punishment of the Wife Who Remarries in Error | |
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| The Wife as Person | |
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| The Wife's Rights in Customary Law | |
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| The Wife's Right to Maintenance | |
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| The Wife's Matrimonial Duties | |
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| Reciprocity of Conjugal Rights and Duties | |
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| Spouses' Rights and Duties with Respect to Divorce | |
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| The Wife as Owner of Property | |
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| The "Straying Wife" Revisited | |
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| The Nazirite Vow and the Personhood of the Wife | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Levirate Widow | |
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| The Scriptural Law of the Levirate | |
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| The Levirate Widow as Chattel | |
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| Mishnaic Expansion of the Levirate Law | |
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| Control of a Levirate Widow's Property | |
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| Annulment of a Levirate Widow's Vows | |
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| Incapacity of a Levirate Widow to Initiate Release | |
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| Ambiguity of Status: Effect on the Levirate Widow | |
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| The Levirate Widow as Person | |
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| The Levirate Widow's Part in the Rite of Release | |
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| The Levirate Widow as Property Owner | |
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| The Levirate Widow's Right to Reject a Repulsive Levir | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Autonomous Woman | |
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| The Emancipated Daughter | |
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| Equivalence of Autonomous Woman to Autonomous Man | |
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| Woman's Power to Arrange Her Own Marriage | |
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| Woman's Power to Engage in Litigation | |
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| Woman as Legal Witness | |
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| Testimony of a Sole Witness to a Husband's Death | |
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| Woman's Eligibility to Take an Oath | |
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| Vows of an Emancipated Woman | |
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| The Divorcee | |
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| The Wife's Active Powers in the Law of Divorce | |
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| The Wife's Passive Rights in the Law of Divorce | |
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| Release of a Woman Morally Entitled to Divorce | |
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| The Total Autonomy of the Divorcee | |
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| The Widow | |
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| The Widow's Rights Against Heirs of a Deceased Husband | |
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| The Widow's Compellability to Swear an Oath | |
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| The Vows of a Widow or Divorcee | |
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| Summary | |
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| Woman and the Public Domain | |
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| The Intrinsic Superiority of the Male | |
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| Women's Subordinate Status and Exclusion from the Cult | |
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| Confinement of Women to the Domestic Sphere | |
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| Women's Incapacity to Fulfill Others' Religious Obligations | |
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| Women's Sexuality and Public Decorum | |
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| Women's Sexual Morality: The Sages' View | |
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| Woman as Cultic Contaminant: The Menstrual Taboo | |
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| Public Man, Private Woman: Sexuality as the Key | |
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| The Anomaly of Woman in the Mishnah | |
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| Dependency, Autonomy, and Sexuality | |
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| Woman as Chattel | |
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| Woman as Person | |
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| The Autonomous Woman | |
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| Private and Public Domain | |
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| Woman as Anomaly | |
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| The Substance of Sanctity | |
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| The Mishnaic Woman and Feminist Theory | |
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| Jewish Feminism | |
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| Is the Right Question Sociological? | |
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| Is the Right Question Theological? | |
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| Feminist Theory and the Mishnaic Woman | |
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| De Beauvoir and the Concept of the Other | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Further Illustrations of Chattel Status of Minor Daughter | |
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| Exceptions to the Rule Compensating a Father for the Violation of His Daughter | |
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| Further Examples of Forfeiture of Marriage Portion by Women Exempted from the Ordeal | |
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| Husband's Right to Revoke His Wife's Nazirite Vow as Inimical to Conjugal Relations | |
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| Effect of Sexual Acquisition of a Woman on Her Caste Privileges | |
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| Further Illustrations of the Effect of Ambiguity on the Personhood of the Wife | |
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| Husband Who Renounces Right to Control Disposition of His Wife's Property | |
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| Law of Usucaption as Inapplicable to Property of Spouses | |
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| Standard of Proof in Cases Involving Wife as Sex Object and as Property Owner | |
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| Curtailment of Levirate Law to Increase Pool of Women Eligible for Marriage | |
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| Divorcee's Right to Freedom from Unreasonable Conditions | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |