Judaism Since Gender

by Peskowitz, Miriam; Levitt, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780415914604
• ISBN10: 0415914604
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Judaism Since Gender offers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline as an pline as an intrinsically feminist practice. The question of how knowledge is gendered has been discussed by philosophers and feminists for years, yet is still new to many scholars of Judaism. Judaism Since Gender illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both within and outside the academy, and ultimately overturns the belief that scholars of Judaism are still largely oblivious of recent developments in the study of gender.

Offering a range of provocations -- Jewish men as sissies, Jesus as transvestite, the problem of eroticizing Holocaust narratives -- this timely collection pits the joys of transgression against desires for cultural wholeness. Judaism Since Gender alters the very terms and values of Jewish scholarship.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Virginia R. Dominguez
Editors' Introduction: "A Way In"	1	(14)
Part One: Knowledges	15	(132)
Miriam Peskowitz
Engendering Jewish Religious History	17	(23)
Naomi Seidman
Theorizing Jewish Patriarchy in extremis	40	(9)
Ann Pellegrini
Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question	49	(7)
Irena Klepfisz
Words and Radiators	56	(1)
Karla Goldman
When the Women Came to Shul	57	(5)
Tamar El--Or
Power/Knowledge/Gender: The Oranges--and Grapefruit Debate	62	(5)
Jonathan Boyarin
The Gender of the Angel	67	(6)
Paula Chaiken
Other Tales: Museum Objects, Women, and Jewish Knowledges	73	(5)
Riv--Ellen Prell
American Jewish Culture Through a Gender--Tinted Lens	78	(4)
Joelle Bahloul
Gender, Colonialism, and the Representation of Middle Eastern Jews	82	(4)
Robert J. Baird
Boys of the Wissenschaft	86	(9)
Laurence J. Silberstein
Toward a Postzionist discourse	95	(7)
Ammiel Alcalay
Finding a Language for Memories of the Future	102	(7)
Rebecca Alpert
On Seams and Seamlessness	109	(4)
Beth S. Wenger
Notes from the Second Generation	113	(7)
Ellen M. Umansky
Teaching Jewish Studies	120	(5)
Judith R. Baskin
Rabbinic Judaism and the Creation of Woman	125	(6)
Daniel Boyarin
Justify My Love	131	(7)
Kalman P. Bland
Medievals Are Not Us	138	(9)
Part Two: Studies	147	(78)
Amy--Jill Levine
A Jewess, More and/or Less	149	(9)
Susan E. Shapiro
A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy	158	(16)
Jay Geller
Circumcision and Jewish Women's Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Failed Assimilation	7	(14)
Susannh Heschel
Jesus as Theological Transvestite	188	(12)
Sara R. Horowitz
Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women's Survival	200	(13)
Laura Levitt
(The Problem with) Embraces	213	(12)
Notes on Contributors	225