Genesis: Eve and anti-Eve -- The books of Esther: the Jewesses of Toledo -- Daughteronomy: conversion and exchange in early modern England -- Exodus: the Jew's daughter in Germany (with Noa Sophie Kohler) -- Second daughteronomy: romance and conversion in nineteenth-century England -- A song of songs: the orientalization of the belle juive -- In the name of the daughter: the belle juive strikes back
Summary
An innovative study of the gendering of ethnic difference in Western society, Sicher's multidisciplinary, comparative analysis shows how racialized images have persisted and helped to form prejudiced views of the Other
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index
