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The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast : Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harel, Naama.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the "civilized," and therefore parallel.The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely recognized as a staple in otherizing portrayals of European Jews, as well as their self-perception.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Animalized Women, Effeminate Jews
- Part I: Transgressing Predator-Prey Dynamics
- 1. Of Nonpredators and Men: The Talush's Carnal and Carnivorous Abstinence
- 2. Of Predators and Women: The Fatal Man-Eater
- 3. Of Cocks and Men: The Gever between Virility and Vulnerability
- Part II: The Shared Oppression of Women and Animals in Devorah Baron's Work
- 4. Of Dogs and Women: Devorah Baron's Feminist Canine Tales
- 5. Of Cows and Women: Devorah Baron's Bovinized Heroines
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4175-2
- 9781978841758
- OCLC:
- 1584502873
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