Religion 226 - GENDR/POWR/BIOETHICS RABBI LIT
Spring
2019
01
4.00
Lila Kagedan
T 01:00-04:00
Smith College
30762-S19
HATFLD 203
lkagedan@smith.edu
Explores how the rabbis of the Talmud concerned themselves with bodies particularly in relation to bioethical issues surrounding conception, life, and death. Focuses on the conceptualizations of gender and health in rabbinic literature as well as on questions of power dynamics in Jewish law as it pertains to women specifically.