Judaism Since Gender

2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-003-68731-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Celebrating 30 years, this second edition of the cutting-edge volume Judaism Since Gender charts feminist and gender theoretical interventions in Jewish Studies through almost thirty distinct essays. This volume offers a critique of Jewish Studies' masculinist and Enlightenment inheritances, arguing that the field's investment in objectivity and scientific detachment has continued to obscure the political stakes embedded in all knowledge production. Against this inheritance, the volume proposes a reconstituted Jewish Studies grounded in embodied feminist, queer, and trans theoretical frameworks that resist the marginalization implied by additive formulations such as a "feminist" or even a "gendered" Jewish Studies.

In two parts, this thoroughly updated collection offers a multi-vocal conversation organized around a central essay in part one, and six extended analytical studies in part two. This volume demonstrates how multiplicity, contention, and productive disagreement are hallmarks of feminist knowledge production. Through this communal and provisional approach, Judaism Since Gender presents new possibilities for imagining, producing, and distributing knowledge about Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peskowitz, Miriam

Levitt, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Editors’ Introduction: “A Way In” - Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz; Part One: Knowledges; 2. Engendering Jewish Religious History - Miriam Peskowitz; 3. Since Gender? - Max Strassfeld; 4. Theorizing Jewish Patriarchy in extremis - Naomi Seidman; 5. Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question - Ann Pellegrini; 6. Words and Radiators - Irena Klepfisz; 7. When the Women Came to Shul - Karla Goldman; 8. Power/Knowledge/Gender: The Orange-and-Grapefruit Debate - Tamar El-Or; 9. The Gender of the Angel - Jonathan Boyarin; 10. Other Tales: Museum Objects, Women, and Jewish Knowledges - Paula Chaiken; 11. American Jewish Culture through a Gender-tinted Lens - Riv Ellen Prell; 12. Gender, Colonialism and the Representation of Middle Eastern Jews - Joëlle Bahloul; 13. Circumcision and Jewish Women’s Identity: Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Failed Assimilation - Jay Geller; 14. Boys of the Wissenschaft - Robert Baird; 15. Towards a Post-Zionist Discourse - Laurence J. Silberstein; 16. Finding a Language for Memories of the Future - Ammiel Alcalay; 17. Judaism Since Transgender: What’s Theology Got to Do with It? - Joy Ladin; 18. On Seams and Seamlessness - Rebecca Alpert; 19. Notes from the Second Generation - Beth S. Wenger; 20. Teaching Jewish Studies - Ellen Umansky; 21. Rabbinic Judaism and the Creation of Woman - Judith R. Baskin; 22. Justify My Love - Daniel Boyarin; 23. Medievals Are Not Us - Kalman P. Bland; Part Two: Studies; 24. A Jewess: More and/or Less - Amy-Jill Levine; 25. A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender and Jewish Philosophy - Susan E. Shapiro; 26. Gender, Trauma, and Intergenerational Transmission - Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini; 27. Jesus as Theological Transvestite - Susannah Heschel; 28. Mengele, the Gynecologist, and Other Stories of Women’s Survival - Sarah R. Horowitz; 29. (The Problem with) Embraces - Laura Levitt.

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Peskowitz is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls (2007), and the titles Truth Behind the Mommy Wars (2005) and Code Like a Girl (2019), and she worked with LEGO on the publishing programme for LEGO Friends. At the time Judaism Since Gender was first published, she was an assistant and then associate professor of Religion at the University of Florida. She is the author of Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History (University of California Press, 1997). Her forthcoming book explores ancient queens and the ancient historians who wrote about them, and suggests that the complex multiculturalism of the Hellenistic world offers a better model for the West than Athens, Sparta, and Imperial Rome.

Laura Levitt is Professor Emerita of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University. She is the author The Objects that Remain (2020); American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007); and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997), and a co-editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (2003). Levitt is a founding editor of the North American Religions series at New York University Press, and, with Oren Stier, an editor of “Tending to Holocaust Objects,” a special issue of MAVCOR, the journal of Yale University’s Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion. Website: lauralevitt.org