Unheroic Conduct - The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Paperback, New)

Offering an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity, this text explores the Jewish ideal of the gentle receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female reaches back through Freud to Roman times, but as the Author aims to make clear, such gender roles are not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he reveals early rabbis - studious, family-oriented - as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish Society. Challenging those who see the "feminized Jew" as a pathological product of the Diaspora or a figment of the anti-Semitic imagination, the author argues that the Diaspora produced valuable alternatives to the dominant cultures overriding gender norms. He finds the origins of the rabbinic model of masculinity in the Talmud, and though unrelentingly critical of rabbinic society's oppressive aspects, he shows how it could provide greater happiness for women than the passive gentility required by bourgeois European standards.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, 8
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	June 1997
Authors:	Daniel Boyarin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	433
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-21050-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-21050-6
Barcode:	9780520210509

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