Lori Hope Lefkovitz

In Scripture (eBook, PDF)

The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about the sexes, human sexuality, family roles, and Jewish sexual identities, in particular, and by extension, changing attitudes towards Jewish men and women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216240419
• Artikelnr.: 75139315

Autorenporträt

Lori Hope Lefkovitz holds the Ruderman Chair in Jewish Studies at Northeastern University, where she directs the Jewish Studies Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Knowledge and Nakedness: Eve in the Garden of Signs
Chapter 2: Sarah's Laughter: Matriarchal Incoherence and the Vexed Sign of
Woman
Chapter 3: Passing as a Man: Patriarchal Gender Performances
Chapter 4: Leah Behind the Veil: Sex with Sisters from the Bible through
Woody Allen
Chapter 5: Coats and Tales: Joseph and Myths of Jewish Masculinity
Chapter 6: Miriam's Fluid Identity
Chapter 7: Bedrooms and Battlefields: Command Performances of Femininity
Chapter 8: Bodies Politic: Violence and Mediated Boundaries
Chapter 9: Oy! Was that a Close Call: Ruth and the Fundamental Jewish Story