Susan Sered, Associate Professor

E-mail: sered@mail.biu.ac.il

Tel: +972-2-6723806

Fax: +972-3-6350995

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PUBLICATIONS

Sered, Susan Starr , Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Symbolic Illnesses, Real Handprints, and Other Bodily Marks: Autobiographies of Okinawan Priestesses and Shamans," Ethos, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "De-Gendering Religious Leadership: Sociological Discourse in an Okinawan Village," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "'Woman' as Symbol and Women as Agents: Gendered Religious Discourses and Practices" in Judith Lorber, Myra Marx Ferree and Beth Hess, (eds.), Revisioning Gender, Sage, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Where Agents Become Symbols: Mikvehs and Mikveh Parties as Arenas of Conflict and Control" in Yael Atzmon (ed.), Women and the Israeli Experience, Jerusalem: Van Leer, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "A Tale of Three Rachels: The Natural Herstory of a Cultural Symbol," Nashim 1,1, forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , and Tabory, Ephraim, "Accessibility of Information and Informed Consent: Experiences of Women Cancer Patients," HaRefuah (Hebrew), forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , and Tabory, Ephraim, "Women's Experiences with Breast Cancer: Focus upon Oncological Nursing" Oncological Nursing (Hebrew), forthcoming.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Women and Religious Change in Israel: Rebellion or Revolution?," Sociology of Religion, 58(1): 1-4, 1997.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Arbiters of Female Purity: Conversations With Israeli Ritual Bath Attendants," in Amia Lieblich and Ruthellen Josselson (eds.), Narrative Study of Lives,

5: 40-58, 1997.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Conversations with Rabbanit Zohara: An Exploration of Gender and Religious Autobiography," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 63(2): 249-268, 1996.

Sered, Susan Starr and Cooper, S., "Anthropological Reflections on the Book of Susanna," (with Samuel Cooper) in Ellen Spolsky (ed.), The Judgment of Susanna: Authority and Witness, Scholars Press, 1996.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Mother-Love, Child-Death and Religious Innovation: A Feminist Perspective," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 12(1): 5-24, 1996.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Our Mother Rachel," in Arvind Sharma and Katherine Young (eds.), Annual Review of Women in World Religions, Volume 4. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 1-56, 1996.

Sered, Susan Starr , "The Structural Invisibility of the Religious World of Jewish Women in Kurdistan," in Shlomo Deshen and Walter Zenner (ed.), Jewish Societies in Muslim Lands. London: Macmillan and New York University Press, 1996.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Women and the Medical System: An Exploratory Study among Breast Cancer Patients," in Amy Avgar (ed.), Breast Cancer in Israel. Jerusalem: JDC-Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development, 1996 (Hebrew).

Sered, Susan Starr , "When Subordinates Lead: Paradoxes of Women's Religious Leadership in Okinawa and Israel," Okinawa Minzoku Kenkyu (Journal of Okinawan Folklore Studies) 15: 1-10 , 1995 (in Japanese).

Sered, Susan Starr , "Rachel's Tomb: The Development of a Cult," Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2(2): 103-148, 1995.

Sered, Susan Starr , "The Religious World of Oriental Women in Jerusalem," in Yael Atzmon (ed.) Jewish Women in Mediterranean Communities. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, pp. 245-257, 1995 (Hebrew.(

Sered, Susan Starr , "Towards an Anthropology of Jewish Women: The Religious World of Elderly, Middle-Eastern Women in Jerusalem," in Maurie Sacks (ed.), Jewish Women's Cultures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 203-218, 1995.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Husbands, Wives and Childbirth Rituals," Ethos, 22(2), 1994.

Sered, Susan Starr , Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Ideology, Autonomy and Sisterhood: An Analysis of the Secular Consequences of Women's Religions," Gender and Society, 8(4): 486-506, 1994.

Sered, Susan Starr , "`She Perceives Her Work to Be Rewarding': Jewish Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective," in Lynn Davidman and Shelly Tenenbaum (eds.), Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 169-190, 1994.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Women's Experiences with the Health Care System: Descriptive Research among Women with Breast Cancer," Oncological Nursing, 3(4): 4-7, 1994 (Hebrew).

Sered, Susan Starr , "Religious Rituals and Secular Rituals: Interpenetrating Models of Childbirth in a Modern, Israeli Context," Sociology of Religion, 54(1): 101-114, 1993.

Sered, Susan Starr , Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sered, Susan Starr and Abramovitch, Henry, "Pregnant Dreaming: Search for a Typology of a Proposed Dream Genre," Social Science and Medicine, 34(12): 1405-1411, 1992.

Sered, Susan Starr , Review of Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Israel, edited by Zvi Sobel and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. Contemporary Sociology, 21(6): 794, 1992 (Book review).

Sered, Susan Starr , "Childbirth as a Religious Experience?: Fieldwork Among Women in an Israeli Hospital," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 7(2): 7-18, 1991.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Conflict, Complement, and Control: Family and Religion among Middle-Eastern Jewish Women in Jerusalem," Gender and Society, 5(1): 10-29, 1991.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Rachel, Mary and Fatima," Cultural Anthropology, 6: 131-146, 1991.

Sered, Susan Starr , "The Synagogue as a Sacred Space for the Elderly, Oriental Women of Jerusalem," in Susan Grossman and Rivka Haut (eds.), Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue. N.Y.: Jewish Publication Society, 1991.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Gender, Immanence, and Transcendence: The Candle Lighting Repertoire of Middle-Eastern Jews," Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 6(4): 293-304, 1991.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Women, Halacha, and Modesty," Jewish Folklore and Ethnography Review, 12(1-2): 14-16, 1990.

Sered, Susan Starr , "Women, Religion and Modernization: Tradition and Transformation among Elderly Jews in Israel," American Anthropologist, 92: 306-318, 1990.