In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the »Jewish Other«. Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyzes how literature, psychoanalysis and the performing arts traverse and react to the ambivalence of racialized stereotypes. The »femininity puzzle« presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic orientalization in the figure of the »Beautiful Jewess«.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 236
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
01 November 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837658217
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Ulrike Brunotte (Prof. Dr.) worked as an associate professor for gender and diversity at Maastricht University (NL) until she retired in October 2021. Her research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in cultural discourse, Orientalism, theories of performativity, aesthetics of religion, psychoanalysis, and literary studies.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
1. "All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews."1 The Femininity Game of Deception: Femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive 21
2. Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions: German Homonationalism around 1900 55
3. Modern Masculinity as Battleground of Identity Politics. Otto Weininger's Sex and Character (1903) 79
4. Against Effeminization. Sigmund Freud's Theory of Culture between Male Band Discourse and Antisemitism 97
5. The "Jewess Question". The Figure of the "Beautiful Jewess" between (Self-)Orientalism and Antisemitism 137
6. Seeing, Hearing and Narrating Salome. Modernist Sensual Aesthetics and the Role of Narrative Blanks 159
7. "Dancing on the Threshold". Maud Allan and the English Salome Scandal 183
8. "Where there is dance, there is the devil". Femininity and Violence: Salome as a Maenad 213
Acknowledgments and Print Proofs 231
Notes on the Author 233
