Judaism Since Gender

by Levitt,Laura; Levitt,Laura

• ISBN13: 9780415914611
• ISBN10: 0415914612
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-11-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Judaism Since Genderoffers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline 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 Genderilluminates 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 Genderalters the very terms and values of Jewish scholarship.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Editors' Introduction: "A Way In"	p. 1
Engendering Jewish Religious History	p. 17
Theorizing Jewish Patriarchy in extremis	p. 40
Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question	p. 49
Words and Radiators	p. 56
When the Women Came to Shul	p. 57
Power/Knowledge/Gender: The Oranges-and-Grapefruit Debate	p. 62
The Gender of the Angel	p. 67
Other Tales: Museum Objects, Women, and Jewish Knowledges	p. 73
American Jewish Culture Through a Gender-Tinted Lens	p. 78
Gender, Colonialism, and the Representation of Middle Eastern Jews	p. 82
Boys of the Wissenschaft	p. 86
Toward a Postzionist Discourse	p. 95
Finding a Language for Memories of the Future	p. 102
On Seams and Seamlessness	p. 109
Notes from the Second Generation	p. 113
Teaching Jewish Studies	p. 120
Rabbinic Judaism and the Creation of Woman	p. 125
Justify My Love	p. 131
Medievals Are Not Us	p. 138
A Jewess, More and/or Less	p. 149
A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy	p. 158
Circumcision and Jewish Women's Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen's Failed Assimilation	p. 174
Jesus as Theological Transvestite	p. 188
Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women's Survival	p. 200
(The Problem with) Embraces	p. 213
Notes on Contributors	p. 225
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