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Volume 13 of Melilah, an interdisciplinary electronic journal concerned with Jewish law, history, literature, religion, culture and thought in the ancient, medieval and modern eras. Contents: Introduction: Five Decades of Gender in Jewish Studies; 1. Judith R. Baskin and Katja Stuerzenhofecker, The Joy of Wisdom. An Interview with Judith R. Baskin; 2. Ruth Gilbert, Jewish Gender Studies and Contemporary Literary Criticism; 3. Tamar S. Drukker, Response to Ruth Gilbert; 4. Melissa Raphael, The Impact of Gender on Jewish Religious Thought. Exemplar: Jewish Feminist Theology; 5. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, Response to Melissa Raphael; 6. Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Gender and Jewish Law; 7. Laliv Clenman, Response to Lisa Fishbayn Joffe; 8. Naomi Graetz, Reflections on Feminist Jewish Approaches to the Bible and the Making of a Feminist Jew in Israel; 9. Tali Artman Partock, Laughing in the Face of Patriarchy: Genesis Rabbah 17; 10. Cecilia Haendler, Women and Priests in Tractate Hallah. Gender Readings in Rabbinic Literature; 11. Etka Liebowitz, Women in Antiquity: From Marginalization to Prominence; 12. Efraim Sicher, Jewish "Bad Girls" Transgressive Narratives and Rebellious Daughters in Contemporary British Jewish Women's Writing; 13. Einat Ramon, Liquid Love, Trans-Humanism and Eugenics: On Paradoxes in Post-Gender Jewish Feminist Thought. Cover: The Matrona, from the series Ghosts and Shadows: The Women Who Haunt the Talmud (c) 2012 Jacqueline Nicholls.