Liquid Love, Trans-Humanism and Eugenics: On Paradoxes in Post- Gender Jewish Feminist Thought

Abstract

My essay critiques concepts of “family fluidity” in the works of three leading American Jewish feminist thinkers: Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler and Martha Ackelsberg. Based on “queer theory,” they question the very distinction between “man” and “woman” and the legitimacy of educating for a covenant between them. The term “fluidity” is borrowed from the works Zygmunt Bauman. In his book Liquid Love (2003), he criticizes the fluidity of boundaries in the sexual behavior of post-modern Western inhabitants. I address the serious bio-ethical challenges that follow the disintegration of these identities, ignored by feminist Jewish American thinkers.