Alan Slomowitz, "Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism "
English | ISBN: 1138749494 | 2019 | 370 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1138749494 | 2019 | 370 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved.
The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic, academic, and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation, and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation.
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