Julia M. OBrien

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Joseph:  Queering Categories

Joseph is best known for his flashy wardrobe--the garment that older translations call his "coat of many colors."  In this session, participants pay attention to how Joseph's clothes, as well as his speech and actions, complicate any attempt to fit him into rigid categories of gender, ethnicity, and class. Who is Joseph, and what do readers' reactions to his story reveal about their own understandings of gender identity and sexual orientation?



 

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