LEADER 04377nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910463240503321 005 20210602102013.0 010 $a0-8122-0359-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203592 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418296 035 $a(EBL)3442177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001052021 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11573402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001052021 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11074961 035 $a(PQKB)11509528 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442177 035 $a(OCoLC)859161096 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29218 035 $a(DE-B1597)449182 035 $a(OCoLC)979580591 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203592 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442177 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748609 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418296 100 $a20021210d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnveiling Eve$b[electronic resource] $ereading gender in medieval Hebrew literature /$fTova Rosen 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-3710-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-252) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. No-Woman's-Land: Medieval Hebrew Literature and Feminist Criticism --$t2. Gazing at the Gazelle: Woman in Male Love Lyric --$t3. Veils and Wiles: Poetry as Woman --$t4. Poor Soul, Pure Soul: The Soul as Woman --$t5. Domesticating the Enemy: Misogamy in a Jewish Marriage Debate --$t6. Among Men: Homotextuality in the Maq?ma --$t7. Clothes Reading: Cross-Dressing in the Maq?ma --$t8. Circumcised Cinderella: Jewish Gender Trouble --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleUnveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries. In the Jewish Middle Ages, writing was an exclusively male competence, and textual institutions such as the study of scripture, mysticism, philosophy, and liturgy were men's sanctuaries from which women were banished. These domains of male expertise-alongside belles lettres, on which Rosen's book focuses-served as virtual laboratories for experimenting with concepts of femininity and masculinity, hetero- and homosexuality, feminization and virilization, transvestism and transsexuality. Reviewing texts as varied as love lyric, love stories, marriage debates, rhetorical contests, and liturgical and moralistic pieces, Tova Rosen considers the positions and positioning of female figures and female voices within Jewish male discourse.The idolization and demonization of women present in these texts is read here against the background of scripture and rabbinic literature as well as the traditions of chivalry and misogyny in the hosting Islamic and Christian cultures. Unveiling Eve unravels the literary evidence of a patriarchal tradition in which women are routinely rendered nonentities, often positioned as abstractions without bodies or reified as bodies without subjectivities. Without rigidly following any one school of feminist thinking, Rosen creatively employs a variety of methodologies to describe and assess the texts' presentation of male sexual politics and delineate how women and concepts of gender were manipulated, fictionalized, fantasized, and poeticized. Inaugurating a new era of critical thinking in Hebrew literature, Unveiling Eve penetrates a field of medieval literary scholarship that has, until now, proven impervious to feminist criticism. 410 0$aJewish Culture and Contexts 606 $aHebrew literature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHebrew literature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a892.4/09352042 700 $aRosen$b Tova$0696726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463240503321 996 $aUnveiling Eve$91378109 997 $aUNINA