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«.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. âAll Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews.â The Femininity Game of Deception: Femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive
- 2. Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions: German Homonationalism around 1900
- 3. Modern Masculinity as Battleground of Identity Politics. Otto Weiningerâs Sex and Character (1903)
- 4. Against Effeminization. Sigmund Freudâs Theory of Culture between Male Band Discourse and Antisemitism
- 5. The âJewess Questionâ. The Figure of the âBeautiful Jewessâ between (Self-)Orientalism and Antisemitism
- 6. Seeing, Hearing and Narrating Salome. Modernist Sensual Aesthetics and the Role of Narrative Blanks
- 7. âDancing on the Thresholdâ. Maud Allan and the English Salome Scandal
- 8. âWhere there is dance, there is the devilâ. Femininity and Violence: Salome as a Maenad
- Acknowledgments and Print Proofs
- Notes on the Author
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