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Title Through the devil's gateway : women, religion and taboo / edited by Alison Joseph
Published London : SPCK in association with Channel Four Television, 1990

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Description vi, 106 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / Alison Joseph -- Women's body and blood : the sacred and the impure / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- 'In thy blood live' : gender and ritual in the Judaeo-Christian tradition / Leonie F. Archer -- Divine mother or cosmic destroyer : the paradox at the heart of the ritual life of Hindu women / Sanjukta Gupta Gombrich -- Rose of Lima : some thoughts on purity and penance / Sara Maitland -- The castration of women : nineteenth-century women and the legacy of biological determinism / Alison Joseph -- The Jewish woman : different and equal / Linda Sireling -- Apart from or a part of : the place of celibacy / Lavinia Byrne
Analysis Women Attitudes of religions
Women. Attitudes of religions
Notes A Channel Four book
Bibliography INcludes bibliographical references
Subject Women and religion.
Author Joseph, Alison.
Channel Four (Great Britain)
LC no. 10004467
ISBN 0281044678 (paperback)