Mujeres, cuerpos y literatura médica medieval en hebreo

Carmen Caballero Navas

doi:10.3989/asclepio.2008.v60.i1.243

Women, bodies, and Hebrew medieval medical literature

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Carmen Caballero Navas Dpto. de Estudios Semíticos, Área de Hebreo. Universidad de Granada

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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2008.v60.i1.243

Keywords:

Body, Sexual differentiation, Hebrew medicine, Menstruation, Cosmetics

Abstract

This essay explores different views on the female body articulated within Hebrew medieval texts on women’s health care. It also investigates whether texts also integrate women’s own perceptions of their bodies, and of their needs and care. I have analysed how this genre of Hebrew literature understood two key issues in the construction of sexed bodies: menstruation and cosmetics.

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Published

2008-06-30

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Caballero Navas, C. (2008). Women, bodies, and Hebrew medieval medical literature. Asclepio, 60(1), 37–62. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2008.v60.i1.243

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Vol. 60 No. 1 (2008)

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Dossier

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