Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man Volume 8
(Part of the Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520210506
ISBN13:9780520210509
Release Date:June 1997
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:433 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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