Negotiating the Interfaith Marriage Bed: Religious Differences and Sexual Intimacies

“Negotiating the Interfaith Marriage Bed: Religious Difference and Sexual Intimacies” explores depictions of sex lives of interfaith marriage in television, cinema, and advice manuals from the 1970s through the 1990s, as rates of Christian/Jewish marriage dramatically increased. It delineates the na...

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Published in:Theology & sexuality
Main Author: Mehta, Samira K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2012
In: Theology & sexuality
Further subjects:B Sexuality
B Judaism
B Interfaith Marriage
B Christianity
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Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:“Negotiating the Interfaith Marriage Bed: Religious Difference and Sexual Intimacies” explores depictions of sex lives of interfaith marriage in television, cinema, and advice manuals from the 1970s through the 1990s, as rates of Christian/Jewish marriage dramatically increased. It delineates the narratives that interfaith couples had to navigate in their sexual lives, contrasting the popular discourse that presented sex as the solution to the tensions of interfaith marriage with the challenges presented in advice manuals on interfaith marriage. In doing so, the article demonstrates the competing constructions of sexuality, as natural, religiously proscribed, and ethnically inflected, and articulates the ways in which those narratives locate conversations about heterosexual interfaith relationships and marital sexual practice firmly in the realm of the individual subject, even when accounting for more communally oriented understandings of sex.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1179/1355835813Z.0000000001