Susan Starr Sered

Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women. New York: Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN   978-0-19-508395-8.

Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. ISBN   978-0-19-512486-6. ^{[2] [3]}

What Makes Women Sick?: Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society. Brandeis series on Jewish women. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press. 2000. ISBN   978-1-58465-024-9.

Religious healing in Boston : first findings, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda Barnes Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2001)

Religious healing in Boston : reports from the field, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2002)

Religious healing in Boston : body, spirit, community, Ed. Susan Sered Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, The Divinity School, (2004)

Religion and healing in America, Ed. Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, (2005)

Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press. 2005. ISBN   978-0-520-24442-9.; with Rushika Fernandopulle

Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2014. ISBN   978-0-520-28278-0.; with Maureen Norton-Hawk

Articles

• 2013 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Criminalized Women and the Healthcare System: The Case for Continuity of Services,” Journal of Correctional Health Care 19(3): 164-177.
• 2012 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Criminalized Women and Twelve Step Programs: Addressing Violations of the Law with a Spiritual Cure,” Implicit Religion 15(1): 37-60.
• 2011 (with Maureen Norton-Hawk) “Whose Higher Power: Criminalized Women Confront the Twelve Steps,” Feminist Criminology 6 (4): 308-322.
• 2011 (with Marilyn Delle Donne Proulx) “Lessons for Women's Health from the Massachusetts Reform: Affordability, Transitions and Choice,” Women’s Health Issues 21(1): 1-5.
• 2008 (with Amy Agigian) “Holistic Sickening: Breast Cancer and the Discursive Worlds of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners,” Sociology of Health and Illness 30(4): 616-631.
• 2005 Threadbare: Holes in America’s Health Care Safety Net (with Catherine Hoffman), Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Washington DC.
• 2002 “Healing and Religion: A Jewish Perspective,” Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, special issue “Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and Care of the Patient.”
• 1999 "'You are a Number, Not a Human Being': Israeli Breast Cancer Patients' Experiences with the Medical Establishment," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 13(3): 223-252.
• 1999 "Talking about Mikveh Parties, or The Discourse of Status, Hierarchy and Social Control" in Rahel Wasserfall, ed. Women and Water: Niddah and Mikveh in Jewish Cultures, UPNE.
• 1995 "Rachel's Tomb: The Development of a Cult," Jewish Studies Quarterly 2(2): pp. 103–148.
• 1988 "Food and Holiness: Cooking as a Sacred Act Among Middle-Eastern Jewish Women," Anthropological Quarterly , 61(3): 129-140.

Awards

• 1993: National Jewish Book Award in the Jewish Thought category for Women as Ritual Experts ^[4]

References

1. "Susan Sered". Suffolk University . Retrieved 2025-05-26.
2. "Declaration of Concern" (PDF). Ryukyuanist (54).
3. "A Response to Critics" (PDF). Ryukyuanist (55).
4. "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

External links

• Suffolk University faculty profile page for Susan Sered

Susan Starr Sered
Born	1955 (age 69–70)
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago (B.A.) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M.A., PhD)

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