Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man Volume 8

by Daniel Boyarin

Book Overview

In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female reaches back through Freud to Roman times, but as Boyarin makes clear, such gender roles are not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520210506
• ISBN13: 9780520210509
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"