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Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Naomi Scheman
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Abstract

Recent writing by Jewish lesbians is characterized BY challenging and evocative reflection on themes of home and identity, family and choice, tradition and transfor’ mation. This essay is a personal journey through some of this writing. An exploration of the obvious and troubling tensions between lesbian or feminist and Jewish identities leads to the paradoxical but ultimately unsurprising suggestion that lesbian identity and eroticism can provide a route of return to and affirmation of Jewish identity.

Type
LESBIAN COMMUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 186 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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