| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Historical gender studies, 2703-0512 ; volume 6 |
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Historical gender studies ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- "All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews" : The feminity game of deception : Femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive -- Queering Judaism and masculinist inventions : German homonationalism around 1900 -- Modern masculinity as battleground of identity politics : Otto Weininger's Sex and Character (1903) -- Against effeminization : Sigmund Freud's theory of culture between male band discourse and antisemitism -- The "Jewess Question" : The figure of the "Beautiful Jewess" between (self-)orientalism and antisemitism -- Seeing, hearing and narrating Salome : Modernist sensual aesthetics and the role of narrative blanks -- "Dancing on the threshold" : Maud Allan and the English Salome scandal -- "Where there is dance, there is the devil" : Femininity and violence : Salome as a maenad |
| Summary |
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".-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Allosemitism |
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Antisemitism |
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Beautiful Jewess |
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Cultural History |
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Effeminization |
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European History |
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Freud |
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Gender History |
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Gender Studies |
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History |
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Jewish Studies |
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Judaism |
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Salome |
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Sexology |
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Society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Ulrike Brunotte (Prof. Dr.), scholarly trained in gender studies, literary studies, and cultural studies (including religious studies), worked as an associate professor for gender and diversity at Maastricht University (NL) until she retired in October 2021. Since 2008, she has also been adjunct professor for cultural studies at Humboldt-University zu Berlin. Since 2011, she is has been an associate fellow at the Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin Brandenburg. She received her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin and her habilitation at Humboldt-University zu Berlin. Her research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in cultural discourse, Orientalism, theories of performativity, aesthetics of religion, psychoanalysis, and literary studies |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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HISTORY / Social History.
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Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839458211 |
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3839458218 |
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