In Scripture : the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / / Lori Hope Lefkovitz.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 191 p. :; ill.
Notes:First paperback edition 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.