Overview

Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century presents the rich diversity of Jewish life from perspectives that center lesbian and queer Jewish feminist people and issues. Blending scholarship with poetry, memoir, and other genres, it reopens the field of Jewish lesbian writing that has been largely dormant since the early 2000s. The contributors illustrate the diversity of Jewish lesbian experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres and explore how this experience intersects with Black, Mizrahi, Sephardi, Indigenous, and trans identities. Opening timely new dialogues between the various fields of Jewish, feminist, queer, trans, decolonial, and critical race studies, Jewcy encourages readers both inside and outside the academy to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.

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Author:   Marla Brettschneider
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438496276

ISBN 10:   1438496273
Pages:   173
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century Marla Brettschneider 1. Henna Night Dyke Anonymous 2. Deconstructing the Binary, or Not? On a Discourse of Intersex in Early Rabbinic Literature Sarra Lev 3. At the Intersection of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and LGBTQ+: The Story of a Community Emerging out of the Margins Ruben Shimonov and Marielle Tawil 4. ID, Please Vinny Calvo Prell 5. Chelly Wilson: Lesbian, Holocaust Survivor, Queen of the Deuce Lauren Hakimi 6. Anniversaries (2018–2021) Joy Ladin 7. The Sephardic Palimpsests of Emma Lazarus Leonard Stein 8. Remembering Sinai: A Spoken-Word Midrash Sabrina Sojourner 9. Life on the Borderlands: Mizrahiut, Transfemininity, and Stateless Diasporas A. S. Hakkâri 10. Meeting Cicely, or Love and Politics: A Black Jewish Lesbian Memoir Carol Conaway 11. Leslie Feinberg’s Complex Jewish Lesbian Feminism Marla Brettschneider 12. Postmodern Concepts of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Framework of the Jewish Lesbian Rona B. Matlow Contributors Index

Reviews

"""Rather than avoiding points of tension, this innovative volume tackles them head on, offering a corrective to exclusionary lesbian/Jewish feminism and giving voice to the diversity of lesbian/Jewish experiences, including race, gender, age, religious background, and more. Brettschneider and her contributors show that lesbian/Jewish feminism can and must be trans inclusive and racially diverse. Recommitting to justice in the broadest sense, the book helps prove the ongoing value of lesbian/Jewish feminism in the twenty-first century."" — Zohar Weiman-Kelman, author of Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry"

Author Information

Marla Brettschneider is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her previous books include Jewish Feminism and Intersectionality and The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives, both published by SUNY Press.

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