In the Hobsbawmian long 19th century, gender and processes of sexualization and feminization have been crucial in the construction of the »Jewish Other«. Ulrike Brunotte explores how these processes came about by addressing imaginative, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. She analyzes how literature, psychoanalysis and the performing arts traverse and react to the ambivalence of racialized stereotypes. The »femininity puzzle« presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic orientalization in the figure of the »Beautiful Jewess«.
1. "All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews."1 The Femininity Game of Deception: Femme fatale Orientale, and belle JuiveSeiten 21 - 54 Download Kapitel (PDF)
2. Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions: German Homonationalism around 1900Seiten 55 - 78 Download Kapitel (PDF)
3. Modern Masculinity as Battleground of Identity Politics. Otto Weininger''s Sex and Character (1903)Seiten 79 - 96 Download Kapitel (PDF)
4. Against Effeminization. Sigmund Freud''s Theory of Culture between Male Band Discourse and AntisemitismSeiten 97 - 136 Download Kapitel (PDF)
5. The "Jewess Question". The Figure of the "Beautiful Jewess" between (Self-)Orientalism and AntisemitismSeiten 137 - 158 Download Kapitel (PDF)
6. Seeing, Hearing and Narrating Salome. Modernist Sensual Aesthetics and the Role of Narrative BlanksSeiten 159 - 182 Download Kapitel (PDF)
7. "Dancing on the Threshold". Maud Allan and the English Salome ScandalSeiten 183 - 212 Download Kapitel (PDF)
8. "Where there is dance, there is the devil". Femininity and Violence: Salome as a MaenadSeiten 213 - 230 Download Kapitel (PDF)
