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When We Collide : Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics /

"When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in contemporary Jewish ethics. Rebecca Epstein-Levi offers a fresh and vital exploration of sexual ethics and virtue ethics in conversation with rabbinic texts and feminist and queer theory. Epstein-Levi explores how sex is...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Epstein-Levi, Rebecca J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I: Groundings. 1. Textual intercourse: grounding sexual ethics in Jewish sources
  • 2. Social intercourse: why sex Is enmeshed in sociality
  • 3. Risky business: why risk is inherent in sociality
  • Part II: Case studies on community and risk. 4. STIs: Infection, impurity, and managing social contagion
  • 5. BDSM: Risk, pleasure, and polymorphous community.