Demon Lover
Epistemology in the Flesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3809210 |
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| Authors | David Rutledge (0000-0001-6168-8038, Department of Sociology, Culture and Communication at the University of New South Wales, Sydney., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x98004002001 |
| OpenAlex | W2167359704 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article discusses the politics of sex, gender and knowledge in the development of the Lilith myth in Jewish folklore. More generally, it discusses the contemporary intersection of discourses on Rabbinic Judaism, postmodernism and sexuality, and considers the ironic implications of expectations that post-modernism and its precursors might help to `redeem' Western epistemologies from their logocentric, masculinist biases. The insight - arguably not alien to Rabbinic thought - that knowledge or discourse involves a sexually marked set of practices and performances, is put forward as being `reversible', i.e. as implying that sexual markings (such as binary sex distinctions) might therefore be considered as discursive.
Acknowledgement · Aesthetics · Art · Demon · Epistemology · Folklore · Human sexuality · Judaism · Literature · Mythology · Postmodernism · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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