Ancient Jewish Gender

Early Judaism ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479896950.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 174-198

Author(s):

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Keyword(s):

Men And Women ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

Ancient Judaism ◽

Shared Space ◽

Limited Perspective ◽

Archeological Evidence

Because our sources about ancient Judaism were composed by rabbis, they reflect a limited perspective and certainly not that of women (nor how Jews actually lived). The rabbis’ attitudes towards domesticity and their description of ritual and menstrual requirements understand men as householders and women, like children, as inhabitants. Both archeological evidence and rabbinic texts suggest that men and women did not occupy separate spaces, so that gendered identities had to be crafted within shared space.

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Introduction

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication ◽

10.1163/18739865-00503001 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 5-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Loubna H. Skalli

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Young Men ◽

Special Issue ◽

North African ◽

Men And Women ◽

Youth Politics ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

African Youth

Knowledge about the generation of Middle East and North African youth has been constrained by the twin processes of intense visibilization and securitization since 9/11. The introduction to this special issue pushes research on youth beyond these processes to reveal the complex and creative ways in which young men and women have been negotiating gendered identities, spaces and power. What emerges from is a refocused appreciation of youth politics and participation, altered forms of resistances and redefined spaces and forms of protest.

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gendering of healthy diets

Gender and Language ◽

10.1558/genl.18825 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Gwen Bouvier ◽

Ariel Chen

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Food Packaging ◽

The Body ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Moral Imperative ◽

Gender Representations ◽

Men And Women ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

Healthy Diets

Gendered identities are communicated in places as frequent and ordinary as food packaging, becoming mundane features of everyday life as they sit on supermarket shelves, in cupboards and on office desks. Multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) allows us to investigate how such identities are buried in packaging in relation to health and fitness. Despite observed broader changes in gendered representations of the body in advertising, in particular relating to the arrival of ‘power femininity’, the products analysed in this article are found to carry fairly traditional and prototypical gender representations, and products marketed at both men and women highlight the need for more precise body management. For women, however, this precision is related to managing the demands of everyday life, packaged as a moral imperative to be healthy, responsible and successful.

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“Muscle”Yekkes? Multiple German-Jewish Masculinities in Palestine and Israel after 1933

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938918000614 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 466-487

Author(s):

Patrick Farges

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Personal Narratives ◽

British Mandate ◽

Men And Women ◽

Body Postures ◽

Gendered Identities ◽

Racial Issues ◽

German Speaking ◽

German Jewish ◽

Oral History Interviews

AbstractIn the 1930s and 1940s, nearly ninety thousand German-speaking Jews found refuge in the British Mandate of Palestine. While scholars have stressed the so-calledYekkes’intellectual and cultural contribution to the making of the Jewish nation, their social and gendered lifeworlds still need to be explored. This article, which is centered on the generation of those born between 1910 and 1925, explores an ongoing interest in German-Jewish multiple masculinities. It is based on personal narratives, including some 150 oral history interviews conducted in the early 1990s with German-speaking men and women in Israel. By focusing on gender and masculinities, it sheds new light on social, generational, and racial issues in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. The article presents an investigation of the lives, experiences, and gendered identities of young emigrants from Nazi Europe who had partly been socialized in Europe, and were then forced to adjust to a different sociey and culture after migration. This involved adopting new forms of sociability, learning new body postures and gestures, as well as incorporating new habits—which, together, formed a cultural repertoire for how to behave as a “New Hebrew.”

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London Smellwalk Around 1450

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.54 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Dugan

Keyword(s):

Social Knowledge ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Archaeological Evidence ◽

Men And Women ◽

The Past ◽

Shared Space ◽

Literary Sources ◽

Sensory Maps

This chapter examines the smell of medieval cities and its role in shaping individual, collective, and social knowledge about navigating these realms. To breathe in medieval cities was a communal affair; men and women inhaled all aspects of this crowded, shared space, including the smell of its many animal and human inhabitants, its industries, and their collective detritus. Using literary and historical sources to create a medieval urban odour descriptor wheel, I argue that the smell of medieval cities was both more pungent and pleasurable than we usually assume; this wheel will hopefully help readers orient themselves towards new understandings about the vitality of smell in the past as well as in the present. Literary sources might usefully be combined with archaeological evidence and recent tools developed by urban geographers and computational social scientists that seek to translate visceral experiences into sensory maps of shared urban realms.

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Ultrastructural comparison of prolactin adenomas of pituitary in men and women

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100103796 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 346-347

Author(s):

R.C. Caughey ◽

U.P. Kalyan-Raman

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Electron Microscope ◽

Phosphate Buffer ◽

Pituitary Adenomas ◽

Osmium Tetroxide ◽

Secretory Granules ◽

Uranyl Acetate ◽

En Bloc ◽

Men And Women ◽

Transmission Electron

Prolactin producing pituitary adenomas are ultrastructurally characterized by secretory granules varying in size (150-300nm), abundance of endoplasmic reticulum, and misplaced exocytosis. They are also subclassified as sparsely or densely granulated according to the amount of granules present. The hormone levels in men and women vary, being higher in men; so also the symptoms vary between both sexes. In order to understand this variation, we studied 21 prolactin producing pituitary adenomas by transmission electron microscope. This was out of a total of 80 pituitary adenomas. There were 6 men and 15 women in this group of 21 prolactinomas.All of the pituitary adenomas were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde, rinsed in Millonig's phosphate buffer, and post fixed with 1% osmium tetroxide. They were then en bloc stained with 0.5% uranyl acetate, rinsed with Walpole's non-phosphate buffer, dehydrated with graded series of ethanols and embedded with Epon 812 epoxy resin.

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Race Difference in Auditory Sensitivity

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.0704.389 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 389-393 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David C. Shepherd ◽

Robert Goldstein ◽

Benjamin Rosenblüt

Keyword(s):

White Women ◽

White Men ◽

Sensitivity Study ◽

Auditory Sensitivity ◽

Race Difference ◽

Men And Women ◽

Auditory Thresholds ◽

Békésy Audiometry ◽

Method Of Adjustment ◽

Better Than

Two separate studies investigated race and sex differences in normal auditory sensitivity. Study I measured thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 cps of 23 white men, 26 white women, 21 negro men, and 24 negro women using the method of limits. In Study II thresholds of 10 white men, 10 white women, 10 negro men, and 10 negro women were measured at 1000 cps using four different stimulus conditions and the method of adjustment by means of Bekesy audiometry. Results indicated that the white men and women in Study I heard significantly better than their negro counterparts at 1000 and 2000 cps. There were no significant differences between the average thresholds measured at 1000 cps of the white and negro men in Study II. White women produced better auditory thresholds with three stimulus conditions and significantly more sensitive thresholds with the slow pulsed stimulus than did the negro women in Study II.

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