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  • The "Boyarin" was left behind, damaged by accidentally grounding, so the squadron was made up of the three big armoured cruisers

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • When compared with much of historical Christianity we find that within historical Judaism women have been much more powerfully constrained to occupy one and only one position entirely, namely that of wife and mother (Boyarin 1997, xxii – xxiii and passim).

    Sex. 2009

  • In the rabbinic idiom, mishkav zakhar comes to refer to male-male anal penetration (Niddah 13b, Boyarin 1995, 336), similar to the more exceptional term “the way of masculinity” (derekh zakhrut, Tosefta Yevamot 10: 2, Yerushalmi Ketubbot 3: 9, 27d; Satlow, 18).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • Differently put, there is no such thing as a rabbinic equivalent for the discipline of physiognomy, nor is there a rabbinic equivalent for the kinaidos (Boyarin 1995, 335).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • Aggadic texts, on the other hand, may play with the notion of mistaken identity, as in the famous story of Rabbi Yohanan and Resh Lakish in which the latter mistakes the former for a woman because he does not have a beard (Bava Mezia 84a; see Boyarin 1993, 215 and 1997, 127 – 144, Levinson, 128 – 129).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • A story like the famous one of Yentl (by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904 – 1991) who dressed as a boy in order to study, is exemplary of the frustrations and pain felt by many women in Jewish society as late as the nineteenth century (Boyarin 1997, 143, 172 – 185).

    Sex. 2009

  • A rather concise example of how the rabbinic valorization of sexual difference oppresses women can be found, nor surprisingly, in their discourse on desire and speech (Boyarin 1997).

    Sex. 2009

  • Representations 20 (Fall 1987): 1 – 25; Boyarin, Daniel.

    Sex. 2009

  • The distinction between the rabbinic and a typical (if extreme) Christian discourse as the signs of two different configurations of androcentrism can be delineated sharply in the contrast between the Rabbis and Tertullian on clothing and cosmetics (Boyarin 1993).

    Sex. 2009

  • In this book Boyarin discusses the Jewish martyr stories, including that of the mother, within the Jewish-Christian discourse on Martyrdom in late antiquity.

    Hannah Mother of Seven. 2009

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