- RLST 3202 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Jewish Texts & Traditions

  • Asian Studies Major/Minor Course
  • RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Course Credits: 3

Asian Studies Major/Minor Course

Semester(s) Offered

  • Spring 2023
  • Spring 2022
  • Spring 2021
  • Spring 2019

Catalog Description

Reads some of the ways Jewish texts and traditions look at women, gender and sexuality from biblical times to the present. Starts with an analysis of the positioning of the body, matter and gender in creation stories, moves on to the gendered aspects of tales of rescue and sacrifice, biblical tales of sexual subversion and power, taboo-breaking and ethnos building, to rabbinic attitudes towards women, sexuality and gender and contemporary renderings and rereadings of the earlier texts and traditions.

 

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