Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature /

Trans Talmud : androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature /

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Author / Creator:	Strassfeld, Max K., 1976- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	ix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
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. Androgyny (Psychology) -- Religious aspects. Gender nonconformity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Masculinity -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Sex in rabbinical literature.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12956088

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ISBN:	9780520382053 0520382056 9780520382060
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Strassfeld, Max K., 1976- Trans Talmud. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520382060

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