| This article discusses the politics of sex, gender and knowledge in the development of the Lilith myth in Jewish folklore. More generally, it discusses the contemporary intersection of discourses on Rabbinic Judaism, postmodernism and sexuality, and considers the ironic implications of expectations that postmodernism and its precursors might help to ?redeem? Western epistemologies from their logocentric, masculinist biases. The insight ? arguably not alien to Rabbinic thought ? that knowledge or discourse involves a sexually marked set of practices and performances, is put forward as being ?reversible?, i.e. as implying that sexual markings (such as binary sex distinctions) might therefore be considered as discursive. The efficacy of contemporary critiques of knowledge production is closely bound up with acknowledgement of this point. |