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Spinning Fantasies

Rabbis, Gender, and History

By: Miriam B. Peskowitz

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Spinning Fantasies

Rabbis, Gender, and History

By: Miriam B. Peskowitz

Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources—archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development. Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic Judaism was the most successful, becoming the classical form of the religion. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Peskowitz re-examines this critical moment in Jewish history and presents a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage. She shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine and why the distinctions were so important in the formation of their religious and legal tradition. Rabbinic attention to women, men, sexuality, and gender took place within the "ordinary tedium of everyday life, in acts that were both familiar and mundane." While spinners and weavers performed what seemed like ordinary tasks, their craft was in fact symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues, which Peskowitz deftly explicates. Her study of ancient spinning and her abundant source material will set new standards in the fields of gender studies, Jewish studies, and cultural studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Miriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources—archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—she challenges traditional

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0520919491

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9780520919495

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

By: Miriam Peskowitz

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Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

By: Miriam Peskowitz

Welcome to Code Like a Girl, where you'll get started on the adventure of coding with cool projects and step-by-step tips, from the co-author of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls. Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It's solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It's about you: whoever you are, wherever you're at, whatever you want. Nearly everything you encounter on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it's your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic. In this book, you'll learn how to: - Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and devising a full-scoring game! - Build your own computer--really! - Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language. - Make your own smartphone gloves. - Make light-up bracelets. - Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room. - And lots more!

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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1524713910

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9781524713911

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars

Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?

By: Miriam Peskowitz

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The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars

Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?

By: Miriam Peskowitz

The author of Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History deconstructs the myth of the "mommy wars" revealing that there is in fact no conflict between working mothers and stay-at-home moms and urging a new dialogue on the issue that privileges choice over polarizing rhetoric. Original.

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Seal Press

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1580051294

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9781580051293

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

By: Miriam Peskowitz

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Spinning Fantasies

Rabbis, Gender, and History

By: Miriam B. Peskowitz

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Rabbis, Gender, and History

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The Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

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The Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that's included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.

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Harper Collins

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0061840734

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9780061840739

The Pocket Daring Book for Girls

Wisdom & Wonder

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

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Wisdom & Wonder

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

Revisit old favorites and discover even more facts and stories. The perfect pocket book for any girl on a quest for knowledge. Includes New Chapters + the Best Wisdom & Wonder from The Daring Book for Girls

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0061649945

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The Double-Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

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The Double-Daring Book for Girls

By: Andrea J. Buchanan,Miriam Peskowitz

The follow up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls—an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In response to the resounding success of The Daring Book for Girls comes a second volume with all original material that promises to be full of even more daring adventure than the first. Girls will learn how to surf, horseback riding tips, April Fools Day history and pranks, how to make a labyrinth, how to sing, all about cowgirls, and how to organize a croquet tournament. Just as packed with creative and exciting material as the original, but double the fun, The Double-Daring Book for Girls is an adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere.

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006187048X

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Book's by Miriam Peskowitz

Spinning Fantasies

Spinning Fantasies

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

Code Like a Girl: Rad Tech Projects and Practical Tips

Spinning Fantasies

Spinning Fantasies

The Daring Book for Girls

The Daring Book for Girls

The Pocket Daring Book for Girls

The Pocket Daring Book for Girls

The Double-Daring Book for Girls

The Double-Daring Book for Girls

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