Jewish Studies 253 - QUEER JEWS

Examines histories, representations, and creative output of Jews who identify beyond the bounds of normative gender and sexuality categories, as well as the idea of Jewishness as itself a "queer" set of histories and perspectives. Organized thematically around such topics as hybridity, "passing," and the gendered Jewish body from the Torah to contemporary television. Students will conceptualize an emerging, collective queer Jewish genealogy and analyze representations of Jewish queerness and queer Jewishness across vast bodies of scholarship and modes of cultural production.