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When We Collide : Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics / Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein-Levi, Rebecca J., author.
- Series:
- New Jewish philosophy and thought.
- New Jewish Philosophy and Thought Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish ethics.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Sex.
- Sexual ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in contemporary Jewish ethics. Rebecca Epstein-Levi offers a fresh and vital exploration of sexual ethics and virtue ethics in conversation with rabbinic texts and feminist and queer theory. Epstein-Levi explores how sex is not a special or particular form of social interaction but one that is entangled with all other forms of social interaction. The activities of sex-doing it, talking about it, thinking about it, regulating it-are sites of ongoing moral formation on individual, interpersonal, and communal levels. When We Collide explores the development of Jewish sexual ethics, and represents an opportunity to move beyond the usual heteronormative accounts that are presented as though they were neutral representations of what "Judaism teaches about sex.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: Groundings. 1. Textual intercourse: grounding sexual ethics in Jewish sources
- 2. Social intercourse: why sex Is enmeshed in sociality
- 3. Risky business: why risk is inherent in sociality
- Part II: Case studies on community and risk. 4. STIs: Infection, impurity, and managing social contagion
- 5. BDSM: Risk, pleasure, and polymorphous community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Epstein-Levi, Rebecca J. When We Collide
- ISBN:
- 9780253065025
- 025306502X
- 9780253065018
- 0253065011
- OCLC:
- 1346362129
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