Susan Fraiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 249019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Fraiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraiman |
| SIGNATURE | FRAIMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1833-125X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Memory Work and Dirty Work: Writing the Labor of Eldercare
Memory Work and Dirty Work: Writing the Labor of Eldercare" identifies the US eldercare memoir as a burgeoning subgenre of life writing. Typically written by daughters about nursing their parents at the end of life, these memoirs-searing accounts of care for declining bodies-make eldercare visible as a major category of unpaid feminized work. Most home care aides in the US are also women, many of them Black and/or immigrants, performing this impo…
HGTV’s House Hunters and the Right to Coziness
This article explores the complex appeal of home-buying and renovation shows on the cable channel HGTV. While their popularity is clear, their political implications are murkier. Some media studies scholars accuse the genre of fostering consumerism, conformity, and neo-liberal nationhood. Others admire its inclusion and “non-special treatment” of queer and racially diverse participants. My own feminist reading notes the limits as well as merits o…
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV
Taking as case studies three women-centered cable TV shows, this essay aims to renegotiate the terms of realism along feminist lines. In their focus on the ordinary and domestic, on proximate bodies and intimate conversations, Broad City, Insecure, and Girls echo the quotidian concerns of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Beyond this, in their signature use of the bathroom, they echo late Victorian efforts to push past the accepted limits of …
The Lost Portrait of Gutle Rothschild
The lost portrait of the matriarch of the Rothschild family, Gutle Rothschild (1735-1849), offers a window not only into the lives of the Rothschilds, but into the lives of Jewish women of the late 18th and early 19th century. The artist Oppenheim was affiliated with the Rothschild family for close to fifty years, and during that period executed a large number of commissions for them. It is possible to compare his extant works with this painting,…
The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk
This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949. The Torah Ark is the central focus of all synagogue worship. Szyk’s ark is unique in its multiplicity of symbols and texts, which was at odds with the modernist idiom of post-World War II synagogue architec…
Sara Ahmed. Living a Feminist Life . Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2017. 299 pp
Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Pioneering ecofeminist work in animal studies dates back to the 1970s. Yet animal studies remained an idiosyncratic backwater until its 21st-century reinvention as a high-profile area of humanities research. Key to its new cachet is a revamped origin story beginning in 2002 with Jacques Derrida as founding father. In readings of Derrida and leading animal studies theorist Cary Wolfe, I examine the gender politics of animal studies today, especial…
Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce
Fraiman's essay challenges the usual conflation—generally unquestioned in discussions of nineteenth-century U.S. culture—of domestic preoccupations with sentimental views of family and femininity. It does so by turning to Edith Wharton, whose devotion to houses and interior design was evident both in her first publication, The Decoration of Houses (1897), and in her home the Mount, built in keeping with Decoration's vision. Yet Wharton's house-lo…
My Professor, Myself
Book Review| October 01 2011 My Professor, Myself The Professor and Other WritingsCastle, Terry New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 340 pp. Susan Fraiman Susan Fraiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 680–682. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302478 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Fraiman; My Professor, Myself. GLQ 1 October…
Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
In dialogue with Gaston Bachelard on "felicitous space," Rita Felski on the everyday, and feminist scholarship both celebrating and reviling the domestic, this essay theorizes a mode I call "shelter writing." Shelter writing-going back to Robinson Crusoe and primarily but not exclusively novelistic-lingers over the shaping and keeping of a domestic space. It details the labor of securing and supplying a home, the pleasure of taking a room from me…
Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
Book Review| March 01 2005 Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,$49.50; paper, $25.00.By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. Susan Fraiman Susan Fraiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–20…
Cuban Entries, May 12-20, 2001
Most of us do not speak Spanish. True, a couple are fluent and a few more can string together paragraphs, but the rest of us settle for gamely pronouncing buenos dias, and call it a day. Working with a translator to present a conference paper raises an interesting question. What is my relation to this amiable, competent, middle-aged woman who holds the power of translation? Is she my tool, obliging dummy, empty receptacle for my voice? And if I'm…
The Transformation of Jewish Consciousness in Nazi Germany Asreflected in the German Jewish Journal Der Morgen, 1925-1938
Journal Article THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH CONSCIOUSNESS IN NAZI GERMANY ASREFLECTED IN THE GERMAN JEWISH JOURNAL DER MORGEN, 1925–1938 Get access Sarah Fraiman Sarah Fraiman BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/20.1.41 Published: 01 February 2000
Power not Plurality: A Response to Estella Lauter and Ranu Samantrai
Diversity? in Adversity: The Retreat from AffirmativeAction
In 1994-95, under various practical and ideological pressures, the University of Virginia engaged in an exercise of self-justification involving tiers of committees and reams of reports. The ostensible purpose of this ninemonth self-study was earnest introspection and improvement; the actual purpose was to meet-or at least to rhetorically finesse-the state's demand that we slash our budget. I was on a committee whose very charge was basically at …
Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism
Catharine MacKinnon and the Feminist Porn Debates
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
Geometries of Race and Gender: Eve Sedgwick, Spike Lee, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
Presents a study of female authors including Burney, Austen, Bronte, and Eliot, who all wrote in England during the Georgian and Victorian periods in an attempt to address the issue of female character development
New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism
Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Pioneering ecofeminist work in animal studies dates back to the 1970s. Yet animal studies remained an idiosyncratic backwater until its 21st-century reinvention as a high-profile area of humanities research. Key to its new cachet is a revamped origin story beginning in 2002 with Jacques Derrida as founding father. In readings of Derrida and leading animal studies theorist Cary Wolfe, I examine the gender politics of animal studies today, especial…
Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
In dialogue with Gaston Bachelard on "felicitous space," Rita Felski on the everyday, and feminist scholarship both celebrating and reviling the domestic, this essay theorizes a mode I call "shelter writing." Shelter writing-going back to Robinson Crusoe and primarily but not exclusively novelistic-lingers over the shaping and keeping of a domestic space. It details the labor of securing and supplying a home, the pleasure of taking a room from me…
Geometries of Race and Gender: Eve Sedgwick, Spike Lee, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Catharine MacKinnon and the Feminist Porn Debates
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
Presents a study of female authors including Burney, Austen, Bronte, and Eliot, who all wrote in England during the Georgian and Victorian periods in an attempt to address the issue of female character development
New Women, New Novels: Feminism and Early Modernism
Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
Geometries of Race and Gender: Eve Sedgwick, Spike Lee, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism
Catharine MacKinnon and the Feminist Porn Debates
Power not Plurality: A Response to Estella Lauter and Ranu Samantrai
Diversity? in Adversity: The Retreat from AffirmativeAction
In 1994-95, under various practical and ideological pressures, the University of Virginia engaged in an exercise of self-justification involving tiers of committees and reams of reports. The ostensible purpose of this ninemonth self-study was earnest introspection and improvement; the actual purpose was to meet-or at least to rhetorically finesse-the state's demand that we slash our budget. I was on a committee whose very charge was basically at …
The Transformation of Jewish Consciousness in Nazi Germany Asreflected in the German Jewish Journal Der Morgen, 1925-1938
Journal Article THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH CONSCIOUSNESS IN NAZI GERMANY ASREFLECTED IN THE GERMAN JEWISH JOURNAL DER MORGEN, 1925–1938 Get access Sarah Fraiman Sarah Fraiman BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 41–59, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/20.1.41 Published: 01 February 2000
Cuban Entries, May 12-20, 2001
Most of us do not speak Spanish. True, a couple are fluent and a few more can string together paragraphs, but the rest of us settle for gamely pronouncing buenos dias, and call it a day. Working with a translator to present a conference paper raises an interesting question. What is my relation to this amiable, competent, middle-aged woman who holds the power of translation? Is she my tool, obliging dummy, empty receptacle for my voice? And if I'm…
Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
Book Review| March 01 2005 Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,$49.50; paper, $25.00.By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. Susan Fraiman Susan Fraiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–20…
Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
In dialogue with Gaston Bachelard on "felicitous space," Rita Felski on the everyday, and feminist scholarship both celebrating and reviling the domestic, this essay theorizes a mode I call "shelter writing." Shelter writing-going back to Robinson Crusoe and primarily but not exclusively novelistic-lingers over the shaping and keeping of a domestic space. It details the labor of securing and supplying a home, the pleasure of taking a room from me…
Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce
Fraiman's essay challenges the usual conflation—generally unquestioned in discussions of nineteenth-century U.S. culture—of domestic preoccupations with sentimental views of family and femininity. It does so by turning to Edith Wharton, whose devotion to houses and interior design was evident both in her first publication, The Decoration of Houses (1897), and in her home the Mount, built in keeping with Decoration's vision. Yet Wharton's house-lo…
My Professor, Myself
Book Review| October 01 2011 My Professor, Myself The Professor and Other WritingsCastle, Terry New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 340 pp. Susan Fraiman Susan Fraiman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 680–682. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302478 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Fraiman; My Professor, Myself. GLQ 1 October…
Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Pioneering ecofeminist work in animal studies dates back to the 1970s. Yet animal studies remained an idiosyncratic backwater until its 21st-century reinvention as a high-profile area of humanities research. Key to its new cachet is a revamped origin story beginning in 2002 with Jacques Derrida as founding father. In readings of Derrida and leading animal studies theorist Cary Wolfe, I examine the gender politics of animal studies today, especial…
Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals: Tracking Gender in Animal Studies
Sara Ahmed. Living a Feminist Life . Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2017. 299 pp
The Lost Portrait of Gutle Rothschild
The lost portrait of the matriarch of the Rothschild family, Gutle Rothschild (1735-1849), offers a window not only into the lives of the Rothschilds, but into the lives of Jewish women of the late 18th and early 19th century. The artist Oppenheim was affiliated with the Rothschild family for close to fifty years, and during that period executed a large number of commissions for them. It is possible to compare his extant works with this painting,…
The Torah Ark of Arthur Szyk
This paper discusses the design and symbolism of a hitherto unpublished work by the artist Arthur Szyk (1894–1951), an ark for the Torah which he designed for the Forest Hills Jewish Center of Queens, New York, and which was dedicated in 1949. The Torah Ark is the central focus of all synagogue worship. Szyk’s ark is unique in its multiplicity of symbols and texts, which was at odds with the modernist idiom of post-World War II synagogue architec…
HGTV’s House Hunters and the Right to Coziness
This article explores the complex appeal of home-buying and renovation shows on the cable channel HGTV. While their popularity is clear, their political implications are murkier. Some media studies scholars accuse the genre of fostering consumerism, conformity, and neo-liberal nationhood. Others admire its inclusion and “non-special treatment” of queer and racially diverse participants. My own feminist reading notes the limits as well as merits o…
Bathroom Realism and the Women of Cable TV
Taking as case studies three women-centered cable TV shows, this essay aims to renegotiate the terms of realism along feminist lines. In their focus on the ordinary and domestic, on proximate bodies and intimate conversations, Broad City, Insecure, and Girls echo the quotidian concerns of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Beyond this, in their signature use of the bathroom, they echo late Victorian efforts to push past the accepted limits of …
Memory Work and Dirty Work: Writing the Labor of Eldercare
Memory Work and Dirty Work: Writing the Labor of Eldercare" identifies the US eldercare memoir as a burgeoning subgenre of life writing. Typically written by daughters about nursing their parents at the end of life, these memoirs-searing accounts of care for declining bodies-make eldercare visible as a major category of unpaid feminized work. Most home care aides in the US are also women, many of them Black and/or immigrants, performing this impo…
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