Queer theory and the Jewish question /

This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boyarin, Daniel (Editor), Itzkovitz, Daniel (Editor), Pellegrini, Ann, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.
Series:Between men--between women.
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Table of Contents:
  • Strange bedfellows: an introduction / Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Anna Pellegrini
  • Category crises: the way of the cross and the Jewish star / Marjorie Garber
  • Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Queers are like Jews: aren't they? Analogy and alliance politics / Janet R. Jakobsen
  • Freud, Blüher, and the Secessio Inversa: Männerbünde, homosexuality, and Freud's theory of cultural formation / Jay Geller
  • Jew boys, queer boys: rhetorics of antisemitism and homophobia in the trial of Nathan "Babe" Leopold Jr. and Richard "Dickie" Loeb / Paul B. Franklin
  • Viva la diva citizenship: post-Zionism and gay rights / Alisa Solomon
  • Homophobia and the postcoloniality of the "Jewish science" / Daniel Boyarin
  • Messianism, machismo, and "marranism": the case of Abraham Miguel Cardoso / Bruce Rosenstock
  • The ghost of queer loves past: Ansky's "Dybbuk" and the sexual transformation of Ashkenaz / Naomi Seidman
  • Barbra's "Funny girl" body / Stacy Wolf
  • Tragedy and trash: Yiddish theater and queer theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger / Michael Moon
  • You go, figure; or, The rape of Trope in the "Prioress's tale" / Jacob Press
  • Dickens's queer "Jew" and Anglo-Christian identity politics: the contradictions of Victorian family values / David A. Hirsch
  • Coming out of the Jewish closet with Marcel Proust / Jonathan Freedman
  • Queer margins: Cocteau, La Belle et la bête, and the Jewish differend / Daniel Fischlin
  • Reflections on Germany / Judith Butler.