Female Bodies and Female Practitioners

is Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, Institute of Jewish and Religious Studies.

• I. Conceived Conceptions and Conceptual ControversiesLennart Lehmhaus: Re-reading Gynaecology in the Ancient World - a Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Survey - Lennart Lehmhaus: Female bodies, Gynaecology, and Women's Medical Knowledge and Practice in Ancient Cultures - a Select BibliographyII. To Cultivate a Field - Thinking about Women's Bodies in Different TraditionsTanja Pommerening: The Female Body in Ancient Egypt: Sources, Terminology, and Concepts - Siam Bhayro: Gynaecology in Syriac Sources: Theory and Practice - Carmen Caballero Navas: Greco-Latin Gynecology in Jewish Robes: The Hebrew Translation of Muscio's GynaeciaIII. Theorizing Sex, Sexuality and the Female BodyUlrike Steinert: Created to Bleed: Blood, Women's Bodies, and Gender in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine - Marzia Soardi: Some Aspects of Aristotle's Gynaecological Considerations - Shanah Strauch Schick: Do Women Emit Seed? Theories of Embryogenesis and the Regulation of Female Masturbation in Rabbinic Literature - Tirzah Meacham: Pregnancy of Minor Girls, Superfetation, and Pregnancy during Lactation in Rabbinic LiteratureIV. Silenced Voices and Objectified Bodies - Women as Practitioners and Practices Applied to Women's BodiesMonika Amsler: Goats or Babies?! A Critical Evaluation of the Teachings by Abaye's Mother (b. Šabbat 134a) and the Relationship between Veterinary and Human Medicine in the Talmud - Tal Ilan: Salome's Medicinal Recipes and Jewish Women Doctors in Antiquity - Samuel Kottek: Caesarean Section in the Talmud: A Renewed Examination of a Historical Enigma - Irene Calà: A Short Remark on the Sixteenth Book of Aetius Amidenus's Libri medicinales: The Case of the Clitoridectomy - Julia Kelto Lillis: Late Ancient Christians and the Rise of Medically Perceptible Virginity