Judaism Since Gender

Celebrating 30 years, this second edition of the cutting-edge volume Judaism Since Gender charts feminist and gender theoretical interventions in Jewish Studies through almost thirty distinct essays. This volume offers a critique of Jewish Studies' masculinist and Enlightenment inheritances, arguing that the field's investment in objectivity and scientific detachment has continued to obscure the political stakes embedded in all knowledge production. Against this inheritance, the volume proposes a reconstituted Jewish Studies grounded in embodied feminist, queer, and trans theoretical frameworks that resist the marginalization implied by additive formulations such as a "feminist" or even a "gendered" Jewish Studies. In two parts, this thoroughly updated collection offers a multi-vocal conversation organized around a central essay in part one, and six extended analytical studies in part two. This volume demonstrates how multiplicity, contention, and productive disagreement are hallmarks of feminist knowledge production. Through this communal and provisional approach, Judaism Since Gender presents new possibilities for imagining, producing, and distributing knowledge about Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness.