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In Scripture : the first stories of Jewish sexual identities /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lefkovitz, Lori Hope, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Knowledge and nakedness : Eve in the garden of signs
  • Sarah's laughter : matriarchal incoherence and the vexed sign of woman
  • Passing as a man : patriarchal gender performances
  • Leah behind the veil : sex with sisters from the Bible through Woody Allen
  • Coats and tales : Joseph and myths of Jewish masculinity
  • Miriam's fluid identity
  • Bedrooms and battlefields : command performances of femininity
  • Other boundary crossings : of talking beasts and bodies fragmented
  • Oy! was that a close call : Ruth and the fundamental Jewish story.