TY - BOOK
T1 - The Femininity Puzzle
T2 - Gender, Orientalism and the »Jewish Other«
AU - Brunotte, Ulrike
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-5821-7/the-femininity-puzzle
U2 - 10.14361/9783839458211
DO - 10.14361/9783839458211
M3 - Book
SN - 978-3-8376-5821-7
BT - The Femininity Puzzle
PB - Transcript
ER -