In Scripture [electronic resource] : the first stories of Jewish sexual identities / Lori Hope Lefkovitz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2010.Description: xii, 191 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 221.8/3053 22
- BS1199.G36 L44 2010eb
First paperback edition 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-182) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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