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The Femininity Puzzle: Gender, Orientalism and the "Jewish Other"
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Abstract In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the "Jewish Other". Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyzes how lite... view more
In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the "Jewish Other". Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyzes how literature, psychoanalysis and the performing arts traverse and react to the ambivalence of racialized stereotypes. The "femininity puzzle" presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic orientalization in the figure of the "Beautiful Jewess".... view less
Keywords
gender; society; sexology; Judaism; antisemitism; cultural history; gender studies
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Social History, Historical Social Research
Free Keywords
Freud; Beautiful Jewess; Salome; Allosemitism; Effeminization; Jewish Studies; Gender History; European History; History
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
234 p.
Series
Historical Gender Studies, 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839458211
ISSN
2703-0512
ISBN
978-3-8394-5821-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed