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The Case of the Sexy Jewess - Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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The Case of the Sexy Jewess - Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture (Hardcover)
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Amidst the growing forums of kinky Jews, orthodox drag queens, and
Jewish geisha girls, we find today's sexy Jewess in a host of
reflexive plays with sexed-up self-display. A social phantasm with
real legs, she moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease,
comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn to construct
the 21st Century Jewish American woman through charisma and comic
craft, in-your-face antics, and offensive charm. Her image
redresses longstanding stereotypes of the hag, the Jewish mother,
and Jewish American princess that have demeaned the Jewish woman as
overly demanding, inappropriate, and unattractive across the 20th
century, even as Jews assimilated into the American mainstream. But
why does "sexy" work to update tropes of the Jewish woman? And how
does sex link to humor in order for this update to work? Entangling
questions of sexiness to race, gender, and class, The Case of the
Sexy Jewess frames an embodied joke-work genre that is most often,
but not always meant to be funny. In a contemporary period after
the thrusts of assimilation and women's liberation movements,
performances usher in new versions of old scripts with ranging
consequences. At the core is the recuperative performance of
identity through impersonation, and the question of its radical or
conservative potential. Appropriating, re-appropriating, and
mis-appropriating identity material within and beyond their midst,
Sexy Jewess artists play up the failed logic of representation by
mocking identity categories altogether. They act as comic
chameleons, morphing between margin and center in countless number
of charged caricatures. Embodying ethnic and gender positions as
always already on the edge while ever more in the middle,
contemporary Jewish female performers extend a comic tradition in
new contexts, mobilizing progressive discourses from positions of
newfound race and gender privilege.
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