Title: Jewish explorations of sexuality /
Authors: Magonet, Jonathan, 1942-
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Sexual Behavior ethnology; Religion and Sex; Judaism; Sex Religious aspects Judaism; Homosexuality Religious aspects Judaism
Contents: Introduction / Jonathan Magonet -- In the Tradition. Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible / Tikva Frymer-Kensky. Sex and Sadism in Hosea / Francis Landy. Dialectics of Desire: 'The Evil Instinct is Very Good' / Daniel Boyarin. The Song of Songs -- Eros and the Mystical Quest / Sara Sviri. The Lust for Asceticism in the Hasidic Movement / David Biale -- Homosexuality and Lesbianism. Some Orthodox Perspectives / Alan Unterman. A Strange Conjunction / Mark Solomon. The Jewish Homosexual and the Halakhic Tradition / Rodney Mariner. Judaism and Lesbianism: A Tale of Life on the Margins of the Text / Elizabeth Sarah. What is Our Love? / Sheila Shulman. Godly and Gay / Lionel Blut -- Therapeutic Views on Sexuality. Freud, Race and Gender / Sander L. Gilman. Myths of Female Sexuality / Sara Cooper. What is Special About Jewish Women's Sexuality? / Sheila Ernst