Nehama Aschkenasy is Professor of Comparative Literacy and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.

• AckowledgmentsPreface1. The Mutation Feminine Otherness: A Historical Overview-The Testimony of the Ancient Documents-The Mutation of Feminine Otherness in Modern Hebrew Literature2. Evil, Sex, and the Demonic-Eve and the "Strange Woman" the Bible and Midrash-Lilith in Person and in Disguise: Woman as Obstacle to Redemption-Modern Incarnations of Eve and Lilith3. The Empty Vessel: Woman as Mother-Motherhood and History: The Ancient Ruth and Her Modern Namesake-Sons and Mothers: The Dialectical Relatioship4. Women and Oppression-Women and the Patriarchal System-Male Tyranny and Women's Sexuality5. Female Strategy-Tricksters and Wise Women-From Wisdom to Fury-Dissociation of the Self-Retreat into the Feminine Sphere-The "Jewess" and Outside OppressionEpilogueA Selected BibliographyIndex

Nehama Aschkenasy is Professor of Comparative Literacy and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.

• AckowledgmentsPreface1. The Mutation Feminine Otherness: A Historical Overview-The Testimony of the Ancient Documents-The Mutation of Feminine Otherness in Modern Hebrew Literature2. Evil, Sex, and the Demonic-Eve and the "Strange Woman" the Bible and Midrash-Lilith in Person and in Disguise: Woman as Obstacle to Redemption-Modern Incarnations of Eve and Lilith3. The Empty Vessel: Woman as Mother-Motherhood and History: The Ancient Ruth and Her Modern Namesake-Sons and Mothers: The Dialectical Relatioship4. Women and Oppression-Women and the Patriarchal System-Male Tyranny and Women's Sexuality5. Female Strategy-Tricksters and Wise Women-From Wisdom to Fury-Dissociation of the Self-Retreat into the Feminine Sphere-The "Jewess" and Outside OppressionEpilogueA Selected BibliographyIndex

Nehama Aschkenasy is Professor of Comparative Literacy and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Center for Judaic and Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Connecticut, Stamford.

• AckowledgmentsPreface1. The Mutation Feminine Otherness: A Historical Overview-The Testimony of the Ancient Documents-The Mutation of Feminine Otherness in Modern Hebrew Literature2. Evil, Sex, and the Demonic-Eve and the "Strange Woman" the Bible and Midrash-Lilith in Person and in Disguise: Woman as Obstacle to Redemption-Modern Incarnations of Eve and Lilith3. The Empty Vessel: Woman as Mother-Motherhood and History: The Ancient Ruth and Her Modern Namesake-Sons and Mothers: The Dialectical Relatioship4. Women and Oppression-Women and the Patriarchal System-Male Tyranny and Women's Sexuality5. Female Strategy-Tricksters and Wise Women-From Wisdom to Fury-Dissociation of the Self-Retreat into the Feminine Sphere-The "Jewess" and Outside OppressionEpilogueA Selected BibliographyIndex