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Unheroic conduct

the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man

by Daniel Boyarin

1997 393 pages eng

The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female, as Daniel Boyarin makes clear, is not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he recovers the studious and gentle rabbi as the male ideal and the prime object of the female desire in traditional Jewish societ…

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