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Author:   Naama Harel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978841727

ISBN 10:   1978841728
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   31 December 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Animalized Women, Effeminate Jews                                                                         Part I   Transgressing Predator-Prey Dynamics 1          Of Non-Predators and Men: The Talush'sCarnal and Carnivorous Abstinence                    2          Of Predators and Women: The Fatal Maneater          3          Of Cocks and Men: The Gever between Virility and Vulnerability    Part II  The Shared Oppression of Women and Animals in Devorah Baron's Work 4          Of Dogs and Women: Devorah Baron's Feminist Canine Tales  5          Of Cows and Women: Devorah Baron's Bovinized Heroines  Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes                                                                                                                                       Works Cited                                                                                                                Index              

Reviews

""Harel's copiously researched and erudite book deftly examines the interrelation of Jewishness and animality in Modernist Hebrew literature. What emerges from her weaving together of ancient Judaic sources and contemporary gender and human-animal studies is a wonderfully syncretic and innovative analysis that elegantly, and importantly, fills a gap in this scholarship.""--Russell Samolsky ""associate professor in the Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara""

""For anyone who has wondered why it's always men tending meat on the grill, Harel provides an answer. Animals--in the slaughterhouse, on the table, in the house, and on the streets--define gender roles in modernist Hebrew literature. Riding a thrilling new wave of animal studies, Harel brilliantly reveals the hidden links among Jews, genders, and animals.""--Beth A. Berkowitz ""author of Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud"" ""Harel's copiously researched and erudite book deftly examines the interrelation of Jewishness and animality in Modernist Hebrew literature. What emerges from her weaving together of ancient Judaic sources and contemporary gender and human-animal studies is a wonderfully syncretic and innovative analysis that elegantly, and importantly, fills a gap in this scholarship.""--Russell Samolsky ""associate professor in the Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara""

Author Information

NAAMA HAREL is the co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Human-Animal Studies and faculty at Columbia’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Kafka’s Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier.

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