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The Jewishness of Feminism & Effeminacy 2017-06-19 08:26:26 Post No. 130571201
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==''Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man''==
This is an interesting book. The author, an acclaimed homo shlomo, discusses the popular stereotypical images of effeminate Jewish men and butch feminist Jewish women. But rather than dismissing these stereotypes as antisemitic slander, he proudly affirms their historic roots in Judaic tradition. He does talk at length about how Jewish law (Halakhah) contains some of the most absurdly oppressive and legalistic attitudes toward women in the world, and he hopes these aspects can be carefully negotiated in future - but he also acknowledges an "upside" which is that these oppressive features have collectively functioned as an engine for feminist progress in Jewish communities and their gentile host nations at large. Overall, the author happily affirms his subversive ideal of what he calls "unheroic conduct" in Jewish life which he sees as a cultural protest against Western ideas of gender, namely the heroic/virile ideals of European manhood and the romanticized feminine ideals of European womanhood. From the author's perspective, effeminacy and feminism are integral parts of the broader Jewish tradition in modernity. And so he understands Jewishness as being essential to the process of eroding Eurocentic gender roles to create more open and tolerant Western societies. Hmmmm
Here is the book:https://www.amazon.com/Unheroic-Conduct-Heterosexuality-Contraversions-Literature/dp/0520210506/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1497728346&sr=1-1&keywords=unheroic+conduct
What other examples have you found of effeminacy, feminism, and Judaism being intrinsically tied or giving rise to one or the other?
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>>130571201
>In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female reaches back through Freud to Roman times, but as Boyarin makes clear, such gender roles are not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he reveals early rabbis—studious, family-oriented—as exemplars of manhood and the prime objects of female desire in traditional Jewish society.
>Challenging those who view the "feminized Jew" as a pathological product of the Diaspora or a figment of anti-Semitic imagination, Boyarin argues that the Diaspora produced valuable alternatives to the dominant cultures' overriding gender norms. He finds the origins of the rabbinic model of masculinity in the Talmud, and though unrelentingly critical of rabbinic society's oppressive aspects, he shows how it could provide greater happiness for women than the passive gentility required by bourgeois European standards.
>Boyarin also analyzes the self-transformation of three iconic Viennese modern Jews: Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis; Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism; and Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.), the first psychoanalytic patient and founder of Jewish feminism in Germany. Pappenheim is Boyarin's hero: it is she who provides him with a model for a militant feminist, anti-homophobic transformation of Orthodox Jewish society today.
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>>130571201
>biased anti semitic literature
>interesting
yeah nah fuck off cunt stormfront is around there corner go there
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>>130571476
Do you read? The book is written by a famous Jewish scholar.
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Go outside m8
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Sex and Character says something similar but it was written from the perspective of a countersemitic Jew rather than one who brags about it.
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>Sex and Character
Yeah, I've been reading some of that. These two authors say a lot of the same things, but Boyarin is really proud of the fact that male effeminacy is affirmed in Jewish tradition.
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