In Eve's Attire: Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body

Does modernity trample on tradition, or can it in fact be a vehicle for the sacred?

How can one determine whether an interpretation is legitimate, anachronistic or corrupted?

Does sexual obsession have a textual origin, and is it woman's destiny to be veiled?

In Eve's Attire confronts these questions and more to suggest another interpretation of religious traditions surrounding the female body and the erotic.

As current fundamentalist religious discourse expresses a growing fixation on modesty,...