"BECOMING" BODIES: Affect Theory, Transgender Jews, and the Rejection of the Coherent Subject.
In Green's works, she challenges binary gender and its use in the regulation of subjects, demonstrating how Jewish ritual objects can be used in diverse ways by diverse people to meet a variety of needs that need not be pre-determined according to the norms of binary gender. As political scientist P...
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University of North Carolina Press
Mar2021
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