Seder Nashim: the Role of Sections on Women’s Conditions in Shaping the Medieval Hebrew Corpus of Gynecology

Carmen Caballero Navas is an associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish studies at the University of Granada. Her research focuses primarily on the medieval Hebrew textual production on women’s healthcare, with an emphasis on women as recipients and providers of medical care. She also explores other interconnected topics, including Jewish debates on sexual difference and the construction of meanings for the female body, medicine among medieval Jews of southern Europe, and Jewish knowledge and practice of magic.

Her Ph.D. dissertation received the Koret Jewish Studies Publications Program Award. Prior to that, she spent one year as a graduate student at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and subsequently several years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. She was a visiting fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS) in 2022.