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Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature
- Title
- Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature / Max K. Strassfeld.
- Author
- Strassfeld, Max K., 1976-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- ix, 248 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law"--
- Subject
- Gender nonconformity > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Sex in rabbinical literature
- Androgyny (Psychology) > Religious aspects
- Eunuchs > Religious aspects
- Masculinity > Religious aspects > Judaism
- Jewish transgender people > Religious aspects
- Gender minorities
- Transgenderism
- Androgyny
- Social norms
- Gender expression
- Eunuchs
- Non-Euro-American gender and sexual identities
- Masculinities
- Jewish transgender people
- Jewish LGBTQ+ people
- Gender nonconformity
- Androgyny (Psychology)
- Masculinity
- Genre/Form
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
- Contents
- Transing Late Antiquity : the politics of the study of eunuchs and androgynes -- The gendering of law : the androgyne and the hybrid animal in Bikkurim -- Sex with androgynes -- Transing the eunuch : kosher and damaged masculinity -- Eunuch temporality : the saris and the aylonit -- Conclusion: Rereading the rabbis (again).
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1280
- ISBN
- 9780520382053
- 0520382056
- 9780520382060 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021037411
- OCLC
- 1267402664
- Author
- Strassfeld, Max K., 1976- author.
- Title
- Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature / Max K. Strassfeld.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Strassfeld, Max K., 1976- Trans Talmud. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520382060 (DLC) 2021037412 (OCoLC)1268120907
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1280