Men's World: Reading Masculinity in Jewish Stories in a Spiritual Context

by Admiel Kosman

"Men's World" presents a selection of tales from the Jewish sources concerned with masculinity and machismo, which it analyzes with tools taken from a range of disciplines: gender studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, literature, and philosophy. These narratives depict a diversity of human situations in everyday life: love and jealousy, ugliness and beauty, wealth and poverty, pettiness and magnanimity, falseness and authenticity. The book is based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3899137019
• ISBN13: 9783899137019
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Ergon Verlag
• Length: 174 Pages