Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (Io

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (Io Series)
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***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction

While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist and LGBT movements in the Jewish world, Jews who identify with the â€œTâ€ now sit in the congregation, marry under the chuppah, and create Jewish families. Balancing on the Mechitza offers a multifaceted portrait of this increasingly visible community.

The contributorsâ€”activists, theologians, scholars, and other transgender Jewsâ€”share for the first time in a printed volume their theoretical contemplations as well as rite-of-passage and other transformative stories. Balancing on the Mechitza introduces readers to a secular transwoman who interviews her Israeli and Palestinian peers and provides cutting-edge theory about the construction of Jewish personhood in Israel; a transman who serves as legal witness for a man (a role not typically open to persons designated female at birth) during a conversion ritual; a man deprived of testosterone by an illness who comes to identify himself with passion and pride as a Biblical eunuch; and a gender-variant person who explores how to adapt the masculine and feminine pronouns in Hebrew to reflect a non-binary gender reality.
Country USA
Brand North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer North Atlantic Books
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2010-06-01
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781556438134

Country	USA
Brand	North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer	North Atlantic Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2010-06-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781556438134

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community (Io Series)

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