Reading Androcentrism against the Grain
Women, Sex, and Torah-Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Boyarin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772981 |
| OpenAlex | W2318033591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The more we learn about comparable gender-segregated, pre-industrial societies, particularly in the Mediterranean area, the more it seems that most of men's observations and moral judgments about women and sex and so forth have minimal descriptive validity and are best understood as coffeehouse talk, addressed to men themselves. Women, we should emphasize, in all their separate groupings by age, neighborhood, and class, may differ widely from each other and from community to community in the degree to which they obey, resist, or even notice the existence of such palaver as men indulge in when going through their bonding rituals. To know when any such male law-givers-medical, moral, or marital, whether smart or stupid-are (to put it bluntly) bluffing or spinning fantasies or justifying their druthers is so hard that most historians of ideas-Foucault, for all that he is exceptional is no exception here-never try. (Winkler 1989: 6)
Epistemology · Judaism · Notice · Political science · Sociology · Torah · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2019 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |