Exemplary bodies

Mondry, Henrietta.

Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / [electronic resource] : by Henrietta Mondry. - Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, c2010. - 301 p. : ill. - Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies . - Borderlines (Boston, Mass.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-292) and indexes.

Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Jews in popular culture--Russia (Federation)
Human body in popular culture--Russia (Federation)
Body image--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)
Russian literature--History and criticism.


Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

DS134.83 / .M66 2010eb

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