Author

Publication

2003-03-01 - University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002042988
  • LibraryThing1356133
  • Goodreads1569020

Classifications

  • LCCPJ5016.R67 2003

Description

"Unveiling Eve is the first feminist inquiry into the Hebrew poetry and prose forms cultivated in Muslim and Christian Spain, Italy, and Provence from 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 the 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 lyrics, 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."--Jacket.

First Sentence

A SINGLE POEM ATTRIBUTED TO a woman has reached us from the wide literary corpus of medieval Hebrew literature.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature (Jewish Culture and Contexts)HardcoverUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2003-03-01

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