Unveiling Eve

Tova Rosen's Unveiling Eve is presented as the first feminist study of Hebrew verse and prose written in Muslim and Christian lands, including Spain, Italy and Provence, between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Choice magazine chose it as an Outstanding Academic Title.

According to the catalogue, writing was in practice reserved for men in the Jewish Middle Ages, and religious learning in fields such as scripture and liturgy was kept largely in male hands. Rosen examines how women fit into this literary world, and how they were kept at its edges.

Students and scholars of Jewish studies, medieval literature and gender history will find the book an important reference for the period.

Edition note: published by University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN-13: 9780812237108.