Search Results for Jewish feminism

...C. Heike Schotten Abstract This article traces the emergence of what the author calls predation TERFism to the development of US Jewish-identified feminism and, in particular, Zionist lesbian separatism. This historical connection is reflected in the rhetorical and ideological similarities between...

... the coherence presumption of legal protection, replacing one form of coherence with another. Inside Jewish society in the state currently called Israel, Mizrahim are systematically excluded from resources and opportunities. 6 Israeli law, when confronted with claims of Mizrahi discrimination, fails...

..., the Economist's Helen Joyce claims the trans ‘global agenda’ is ‘shaped’ by three Jewish billionaires .” Twitter, July 17, 11:25 p.m. https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1416599964214448130 . Poe Edgar Allan . 1846 . “ The Philosophy of Composition .” Graham's Magazine 28 , no. 4 : 163 – 67...

...-trans Lobby's Real Agenda .” Jewish Currents , April 27 . https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-trans-lobbys-real-agenda . Gleaves John , and Lehrbach Tim . 2016 . “ Beyond Fairness: The Ethics of Inclusion for Transgender and Intersex Athletes .” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport...

... and documented trans lives throughout his life. Furthermore, Hirschfeld has received renewed attention in pop culture. Bauer begins the book with a discussion of the television show Transparent . The show's trans character Gittel, one of Maura Pfefferman's (Jeffrey Tambor) German-Jewish relatives, captures...

... Joy . 2012 . Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Ladin Joy . 2018 . The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective . Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press . Mahmood Saba...

... in the premodern period by analyzing the theological debate about primal androgyny. 6. For Indigenous conceptions of two-spirit, see Pyle 2018 . See Tudor 2021 for decolonizing trans studies. For Jewish interpretations of nonbinary sex, see Strassfeld 2022 . 7. In an email correspondence (June 28...

... of hetero-patriarchal systems who, far from being females and hating it, are deeply invested in being males and loving it. If you think we are all female and we all hate it, you should look up the Jewish prayer where men thank God every day that they were not born female. You should then visit a gay bar...

... for elevators, stopping the bus for the slow raising and lowering of the chair lift—these are the rituals of knowing oneself and knowing one's body. An example of trans/cription is found in Rabbi Eli Kukla's “Blessing for Transitioning Genders,” with which this piece began. Kukla ( 2006 ) writes: Jewish...

..., as parasitic carriers of plagues and diseases not seldom deployed as a metaphor for racial dehumanization, those imaginations might have been available only to those who could identify with rats without being identified as rats. However, it is important to note that Steinach, who himself was Jewish...

... restoration, it was within the visual-erotic field that he also managed to relinquish this desire, explaining that watching pornography of circumcised men “just sort of soothed my psyche, just to realize that it doesn't really make that much difference anymore” (152). Finally, a gay Jewish man with a penchant...

... of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (HBI Series on Jewish Women, Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2019), reprinted in this issue. Citations refer to the TSQ pagination rather than the original publication. The invitation to respond to Joy Ladin's theologically...

... a stable identity. From Faludi's perspective her father sees her acceptance and recognition as a woman as part of the identity recovery of her nation, Hungary, and her conflictive Jewishness. In Faludi's case the politics of recognition were at play. One may feel belonging to a group, but it becomes...

..., socioeconomic class, labor, and precarity. Bubot niyar , for example, focuses on a group of Filipina migrant workers who, by day, care for elderly Orthodox Jewish men in Israel; by night, the same workers form a drag troupe and perform in the gay clubs of Tel Aviv. Aizura's close reading of the film...

... involve reclaiming those drives and recognizing that they are a product of one's own desire and fantasy. In Žižek's example of anti-Semitism, the symbolic fiction is that “civilized” persons are not racist and do not persecute Jews but are victims of a fantasized Jewish control. In our example...

... Kottbusser Tor ” (“The Renters' Collective at Kottbusser Tor”). kottiundco.net/english/ (accessed December 10, 2016 ). Landry Olivia . 2016 . “ Jewish Joke Telling in Muttersprache Mameloschn: Performing Queer Intervention on the German Stage .” Women and Performance 26 , no. 1 : 36 – 54...

..., more even than the infinite substitutability they take on in algebraic discourse, which their iterability and indeterminateness exceed, dramatized in Scarface in the unassimilable life of an Italian immigrant played by a Jewish Austro-Hungarian. The X also traces in time. Our races, our genders...

.... To illustrate how transitioning genders may facilitate a more “truthful” relation to reality, I will conclude with an interview from Krista Tippett's podcast On Being with Joy Ladin ( 2014 ), the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. During the interview, Ladin discusses her...

...” therapies can be made to seem inessential to his better-known development of a treatment for transsexuality. Hirschfeld has largely been remembered as a progressive Jewish sexologist and early homosexual emancipationist who was repeatedly physically assaulted by anti-Semites and eventually forced...

..., secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, offers in Stone Butch Blues the possibility of butch as a transmasculine analytic (Bruce and Bruce 2014 ). The silence and stoicism of the stone butch lesbian are present in historical and contemporary incarnations...