Ebook: Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing?outing?""queer Jews"" as it is in exploring the complex social arrangements and processes through which modern Jewish and homosexual identities emerged as traces of each other during t.;Contents; Acknowledgments; Strange Bedfellows: An Introduction; Category Crises: The Way of the Cross and the Jewish Star; Epistemology of the Closet; Queers Are Like Jews, Aren't They? Analogy and Alliance Politics; Freud, Blüher, and the Secessio Inversa: Männerbünde, Homosexuality, and Freud's Theory of Cultural Formation; Jew Boys, Queer Boys: Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Homophobia in the Trial of Nathan "Babe" Leopold Jr. and Richard "Dickie" Loeb; Viva la Diva Citizenship: Post-Zionism and Gay Rights; Homophobia and the Postcoloniality of the "Jewish Science."