The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny.
The sexy Jewess moves boldly between neo-burlesque striptease, comedy television, ballet movies, and progressive porn. Bringing sexiness together with race, gender, and class, The Case of the Sexy Jewess looks at embodied joke-work that is most often, but not always meant to be funny.
Hannah Schwadron is Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at Florida State University
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* Contents * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Case of the Sexy Jewess * Repetition with a Difference and the Joke Body * Expressive Confessions of a "Face Like That" * All in a Look * The Corporeal Turn for New Jewish Studies Identity Acts and Impersonations * Jewish Joke-Work and the Doubled Female Subject * The Queer Play of Self-Display * Methods and Materials * Notes * Chapter 1 * Nice Girls Gone Blue: Neo-Burlesque Nostalgia and the Downwardly Mobile * Rockette Fantasies and the Menorah Horah * Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and Ordering Chinese On Christmas Eve * "Polyester Feminism" and the Stakes of Self-Display * Sexy Spirit and the Do-It-Yourself Scheme * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 2 * Hello, Gorgeous and the Historical Lens: How Funny Girls Became Sexy * Fanny Brice, Barbra Streisand, and the Joke of the Jewish Swan * Sophie Tucker, Betty Boop, and the Bawdy Body Blacking Up * Party Albums, Postwar Ambitions, and the Jewish American Princess * Sexy Jews and Leggy Moves: Bunnies, Babes, and Mermaid Maneuvers * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 3 * Comic Glory (and Guilt): The Appropriative License of Jewish Female Comedy * Sandra Bernhard and the I/You Other * Race, Sex, and the Sarah Silverman Effect * Broad City's Bad Girls Getting Bi In-Between * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 4 * Black Swan, White Nose: Jewish Horror and Ballet Birds By Any Other Name * Synopsis and Setup: Thriller Ballet and Jewish Swans All Sexed Up * Facing the Jewish Female Monster * Jewish Swans, Queer Contexts * Lesbian Sex and Swan Sin: Thrills Fit to Forget * Swan Queen Kills Herself, Saves Ballet? * The Funny Thing About Horror: Moving Across Genres * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 5 * Punk Porn Princess Joanna Angel and the Rise of Jewess Raunch * From the Porn Wars to Post-feminism * Piggish Authority and Sexual Commodification * At Home in Burning Angel and Joanna's Jewish Roots * Blow Up Joanna and the Jewish Doppelgänger * Heeb Magazine and the Jewish Cutting Edge * The Game of Interracial Porn and Joanna's Phallic Check Mate * Conclusion * Notes * Conclusion * At the Edge and In Your Face * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Contents * Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Case of the Sexy Jewess * Repetition with a Difference and the Joke Body * Expressive Confessions of a "Face Like That" * All in a Look * The Corporeal Turn for New Jewish Studies Identity Acts and Impersonations * Jewish Joke-Work and the Doubled Female Subject * The Queer Play of Self-Display * Methods and Materials * Notes * Chapter 1 * Nice Girls Gone Blue: Neo-Burlesque Nostalgia and the Downwardly Mobile * Rockette Fantasies and the Menorah Horah * Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad and Ordering Chinese On Christmas Eve * "Polyester Feminism" and the Stakes of Self-Display * Sexy Spirit and the Do-It-Yourself Scheme * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 2 * Hello, Gorgeous and the Historical Lens: How Funny Girls Became Sexy * Fanny Brice, Barbra Streisand, and the Joke of the Jewish Swan * Sophie Tucker, Betty Boop, and the Bawdy Body Blacking Up * Party Albums, Postwar Ambitions, and the Jewish American Princess * Sexy Jews and Leggy Moves: Bunnies, Babes, and Mermaid Maneuvers * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 3 * Comic Glory (and Guilt): The Appropriative License of Jewish Female Comedy * Sandra Bernhard and the I/You Other * Race, Sex, and the Sarah Silverman Effect * Broad City's Bad Girls Getting Bi In-Between * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 4 * Black Swan, White Nose: Jewish Horror and Ballet Birds By Any Other Name * Synopsis and Setup: Thriller Ballet and Jewish Swans All Sexed Up * Facing the Jewish Female Monster * Jewish Swans, Queer Contexts * Lesbian Sex and Swan Sin: Thrills Fit to Forget * Swan Queen Kills Herself, Saves Ballet? * The Funny Thing About Horror: Moving Across Genres * Conclusion * Notes * Chapter 5 * Punk Porn Princess Joanna Angel and the Rise of Jewess Raunch * From the Porn Wars to Post-feminism * Piggish Authority and Sexual Commodification * At Home in Burning Angel and Joanna's Jewish Roots * Blow Up Joanna and the Jewish Doppelgänger * Heeb Magazine and the Jewish Cutting Edge * The Game of Interracial Porn and Joanna's Phallic Check Mate * Conclusion * Notes * Conclusion * At the Edge and In Your Face * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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