{"product_id":"construction-of-gender-and-identity-karalina-matskevich-9780567695512","title":"Construction of Gender and Identity in Genesis: The Subject and the Other","description":"Karalina Matskevich examines the structures that map out the construction of gendered and national identities in Genesis 2-3 and 12-36. Matskevich shows how the dominant 'Subject' - the androcentric \u003ci\u003eha'adam\u003c\/i\u003e and the ethnocentric Israel - is perceived in relation to and over against the 'Other', represented respectively as female and foreign. Using the tools of narratology, semiotics and psychoanalysis, Matskevich highlights the contradiction inherent in the project of dominance, through which the Subject seeks to suppress the transforming power of difference it relies on for its signification. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus, in Genesis 2-3 \u003ci\u003eha'adam\u003c\/i\u003e can only emerge as a complex Subject in possession of knowledge with the help of woman, the transforming Other to whom the narrator (and Yahweh) attributes both the agency and the blame. Similarly, the narratives of Genesis 12-36 show a conflicted attitude to places of alterity: Egypt, the fertile and seductive space that threatens annihilation, and Haran, the 'mother's land', a complex metaphor for the feminine. The construction of identity in these narratives largely relies on the symbolic fecundity of the Other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karalina Matskevich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0567695514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780567695512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Karalina Matskevich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44890906460415,"sku":"9780567695512","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1203009e-dc90-4291-b65b-e651541371fd.jpg?v=1709740368","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/construction-of-gender-and-identity-karalina-matskevich-9780567695512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}