RT Book
T1 The lives of Jessie Sampter: queer, disabled, Zionist
A1 Imhoff, Sarah
LA English
PP Durham London
PB Duke University Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1780559291
AB A religious life -- A life with disability -- A queer life -- A theological-political life.
AB "Jessie Sampter (1883-1938) was best known for her 95-page A Course on Zionism, an American primer for understanding support of a Jewish state in Palestine first published in 1915. In 1919, Jessie packed a trousseau, and declared herself "married to Palestine." Yet Sampter's own life and body hardly matched typical Zionist ideals: while Zionism celebrated the strong and healthy body, Sampter spoke of herself as "crippled" from polio and plagued by weakness and sickness her whole life; while Zionism applauded reproductive women's bodies, Sampter never married or bore children. In fact, she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships we would consider queer. Though Jessie Sampter was in many ways quite distinctive, analyzing her life illuminates a sometimes invisible aspect of the human condition: our embodied selves do not always neatly line up with our religious or political ideals. In its telling of the lives of Sampter, the book pursues an embodied method of learning about the past. It draws not only on texts and material objects-the things scholars usually interpret through reading and seeing-but also what we apprehend by other senses, feelings, and experiences"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PS3537.A567
SN 9781478018063
SN 9781478015437
K1 Sampter, Jessie E : (Jessie Ethel) : 1883-1938
K1 Authors, American : 20th century : Biography
K1 Zionists : United States : Biography
K1 Authors with disabilities : United States : Biography
K1 Lesbian authors : United States : Biography
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
K1 Biografie