The Bible and Feminism

Remapping the Field
Herausgeber: Sherwood, Yvonne

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection provides readers with a concise, high-level introduction to the field of feminist and gender biblical criticism. It consists of 36 chapters which tackle a wide range of new theoretical and methodological movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 175mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1279g
• ISBN-13: 9780198842071
• ISBN-10: 0198842074
• Artikelnr.: 57611183

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Sherwood is Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics at the University of Kent. Her publications include Biblical Blaspheming: Trials Of The Sacred For A Secular Age (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Yvonne Sherwood: The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field
* Part I: Prophets and Revolutionaries
* 2: Jorunn Økland: Death and the Maiden: Manifestos, Gender,
Self-Canonisation, and Violence
* 3: Jane Shaw: Joanna Southcott and Mabel Barltrop: Interpreting
Genesis and Revelation
* 4: Holly Morse: The First Woman Question: Eve and the Women's
Movement
* 5: Alison Jasper: Reflections on Reading the Bible: From Flesh to
Female Genius (Jane Leade)
* 6: Pamela Kirk Rappaport: Another Esther: Sor Juana s Biblical
Self-Portrait
* 7: Jennifer Leader: Reading The Revelations of the Book / Whose
Genesis was June : Emily Dickinson s Hermeneutics of the Heart
* 8: Ilana Pardes: Toni Morrison's Shulamites: The African-American
Song
* 9: Anna Fisk: Stood Weeping Outside the Tomb: Dis(re)membering Mary
Magdalene (Gospels)
* 10: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: Feminist Re-Mappings in Times of
Neoliberalism
* 11: Alicia Ostriker: The Wandering Jewess: Feminism Seeks the
Shekinah
* Part II:. An Unconventional Tour of the Biblical Canon, beyond the
Canons of Feminist/Womanist Criticism
* 12: Deborah Kahn-Harris: The Inheritance of Gehinnom: Feminist
Midrash as a Vehicle for Contemporary Bible Criticism (Genesis)
* 13: Jennifer L. Koosed: Moses, Feminism and the Male Subject (Exodus)
* 14: Rachel Havrelock: Home at Last: The Local Domain and Female Power
(Deuteronomy/Joshua)
* 15: Ken Stone: Jacob and the Queer Hermeneutics of
Carnophallogocentrism (Judges)
* 16: Ann Jeffers: Forget It: The Case of Women s Rituals in Ancient
Israel; Or, How to Remember the Woman of Endor (Samuel/Kings)
* 17: Erin Runions: Sexual Politics and Surveillance: A Feminist,
Metonymic, Spinozan Reading of Psalm 139
* 18: Mercedes L. García Bachmann: A Foolish King, Women and Wine, and
Sons of Oppression: A Dangerous Cocktail from Lemuel s Mother
(Proverbs 31:1-9)
* 19: Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter: My Mother was a Wandering Aramaean: A
Nomadic Approach to the Hebrew Bible (Ruth)
* 20: Deborah Frances Sawyer: Queen Vashti's No and What It Can Tell Us
About Gender Tools in Biblical Narrative (Esther)
* 21: Ingeborg Löwisch: Miriam Ben Amram, or, How to Make Sense of the
Absence of Women in the Genealogies of Levi (1 Chronicles 5.27-6.66)
* 22: Wai Ching Angela Wong: The Politics of Remembrance: Genealogies
of 1 Chronicles 1-9 and Haunting Memories in China
* 23: Jennifer A. Glancy: Corporal Ignorance: The Refusal of Embodied
Memory (Gospels)
* 24: Can an Adulteress Save Jesusa The Pericope Adulterae, Feminist
Interpretation, and the Limits of Narrative Agency (John)
* 25: Joseph Marchal: Pinkwashing Paul, Excepting Jesus: The Politics
of Intersectionality, Identification, and Respectability (Paul)
* 26: Denise K. Buell: Embodied Temporalities: Health, Illness, and the
Matter of Feminist Biblical Interpretation
* 27: Fatima Tofighi: Unveiling the European Woman (Paul)
* Part III: Offpage: Actualizations and Performances of Scripture
Beyond Protestant Models of Reading
* 28: Francesca Stavrakopoulou: The Ancient Goddess, the Biblical
Scholar, and the Religious Past: Re-imaging Divine Women
* 29: Carol Meyers: Double Vision: Textual and Archaeological Images of
Israelite Women
* 30: Madiopoane Masenya: Limping, Yet Made to Climb a Mountain!
Re-Reading the Vashti Character in the HIV and AIDS South African
Context
* 31: Janice De-Whyte: "The Reproductive Rite: (In)Fertility in the
Ashanti and Ancient Hebrew Context"
* 32: Dawn Llewellyn: But I Still Read the Bible! : Post-Christian
Women s Biblicalism
* 33: Mieke Bal: Sneaky Snakes: Seduction, the Biblical Imagination,
and Activating Art
* 34: Sara Moslener: Material World: Gender and the Bible in
Evangelical Purity Culture
* 35: Zayn Kassam: Muslim Liberative Approaches and Legal Dilemma
Towards Gender Justice
* 36: Rosamond C. Rodman: Scripturalizing and the Second Amendment
* 37: Yvonne Sherwood: The Impossibility of Queering the Mother: New
Sightings of the Virgin Mother in the Secular State