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The Lives of Jessie Sampter - Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Hardcover)
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The Lives of Jessie Sampter - Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Hardcover)
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In The Lives of Jessie Sampter, Sarah Imhoff tells the story of an
individual full of contradictions. Jessie Sampter (1883-1938) was
best known for her Course in Zionism (1915), an American primer for
understanding support of a Jewish state in Palestine. In 1919,
Sampter packed a trousseau, declared herself "married to
Palestine," and immigrated there. Yet Sampter's own life and body
hardly matched typical Zionist ideals. Although she identified with
Judaism, Sampter took up and experimented with spiritual practices
from various religions. While Zionism celebrated the strong and
healthy body, she spoke of herself as "crippled" from polio and
plagued by sickness her whole life. While Zionism applauded
reproductive women's bodies, Sampter never married or bore
children; in fact, she wrote of homoerotic longings and had
same-sex relationships. By charting how Sampter's life did not
neatly line up with her own religious and political ideals, Imhoff
highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections
between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism.
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