TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polak-Sahm,Varda
TI  - House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh
SN  - 9780807077436
AV  - BM703 -- .P6513 2009eb 
U1  - 296.7/5 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Mikveh
KW  - Jewish women -- Religious life
KW  - Purity, Ritual -- Judaism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. The Place -- 2. The Balaniyot -- 3. A Dose of Impurity -- 4. Blood and Banishment -- 5. Purity and Sexuality -- 6. Female Rituals, Sisterhood, and Female Authority -- 7. Between a Woman and God -- 8. Between Man and Wife -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Hebrew Bibliography -- English Bibliography -- Index
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3118061
ER  -