Queer Theory and the Jewish Question
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Description
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing--outing--"queer Jews" as it is in exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of each other during the last two hundred years.
Product Details
Price
$43.20
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publish Date
December 10, 2003
Pages
464
Dimensions
6.7 X 8.56 X 0.9 inches | 1.26 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780231113755
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About the Author
Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the departments of Near Eastern studies and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also an affiliated faculty member in the women's studies department and gay and lesbian studies program. He is the author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man. Daniel Itzkovitz is associate professor of English at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. He has published articles on Jewish studies, queer theory, and American literature and is the editor of a new edition of Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life. Ann Pellegrini is associate professor of religious studies and performance studies at New York University. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race.
Reviews
The publication of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question is reason to get excited... [it] juggles theoretical concerns with popular culture and never condescends. But more than that, the book makes reading serious essays about homosexuality fun again. And that's saying a lot.--The Guide
This scholarly and well-documented volume is a strong addition to any academic or research collection focusing on the Jewish identity, homosexual identity, and particularly the relation between the two.--American Jewish Libraries Newsletter
Other than Boyarin'sUnheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man, this appears to be the first book to explore the inventions of the homosexual and the modern Jew. Seventeen insightful essays show how those inventions are mutually implicated.... Highly recommended.--Choice
Addresses in thoughtful and engaging ways the intersection of Jewishness and the queer in a range of cultural texts.--David Moscowitz "An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies "
This skilled collection does more than track the career of the queer-Jewish analogy from Spanish crypto-Jews to Israel drag queens.... It's a vital, long-awaited book.--Marissa Pareles "Lambda Book Report "
cultural analysis that offers scholars of both queer theory and Jewish studies fresh avenues for thought and research--Michael G. Cornelius "The Bloomsbury Review "
It is one of those rare academic works that is difficult, if not impossible, to put down.--Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College "Nova Religio "
This scholarly and well-documented volume is a strong addition to any academic or research collection focusing on the Jewish identity, homosexual identity, and particularly the relation between the two.--American Jewish Libraries Newsletter
Other than Boyarin'sUnheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man, this appears to be the first book to explore the inventions of the homosexual and the modern Jew. Seventeen insightful essays show how those inventions are mutually implicated.... Highly recommended.--Choice
Addresses in thoughtful and engaging ways the intersection of Jewishness and the queer in a range of cultural texts.--David Moscowitz "An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies "
This skilled collection does more than track the career of the queer-Jewish analogy from Spanish crypto-Jews to Israel drag queens.... It's a vital, long-awaited book.--Marissa Pareles "Lambda Book Report "
cultural analysis that offers scholars of both queer theory and Jewish studies fresh avenues for thought and research--Michael G. Cornelius "The Bloomsbury Review "
It is one of those rare academic works that is difficult, if not impossible, to put down.--Melissa M. Wilcox, Whitman College "Nova Religio "
