The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field
This groundbreaking book breaks with established canons and resists some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. It features a wide range of contributors who showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms, intersectionality, postidentitarian 'nomadic' politics, gender archaeology, and lived religion, and theories of the human and the posthuman. The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field engages a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia, divorce and family law, abortion, 'pinkwashing', the neoliberal university, the second amendment, AIDS and sexual trafficking, and the politics of 'the veil'. Foundational figures in feminist biblical studies work alongside new voices and contributors from a multitude of disciplines in conversations with the Bible that go well beyond the expected canon-within-the-canon assumed to be of interest to feminist biblical scholars. Moving beyond the limits of a text-orientated model of reading, this collection looks at how biblical texts were actualized in the lives of religious revolutionaries, such as Joanna Southcott or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. It charts the politics of the Pauline veil in the self-understanding of Europe and reads the 'genealogical halls' in the book of Chronicles alongside acts of commemoration and forgetting in 9/11 and Tiananmen Square.
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The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field
This groundbreaking book breaks with established canons and resists some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. It features a wide range of contributors who showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms, intersectionality, postidentitarian 'nomadic' politics, gender archaeology, and lived religion, and theories of the human and the posthuman. The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field engages a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia, divorce and family law, abortion, 'pinkwashing', the neoliberal university, the second amendment, AIDS and sexual trafficking, and the politics of 'the veil'. Foundational figures in feminist biblical studies work alongside new voices and contributors from a multitude of disciplines in conversations with the Bible that go well beyond the expected canon-within-the-canon assumed to be of interest to feminist biblical scholars. Moving beyond the limits of a text-orientated model of reading, this collection looks at how biblical texts were actualized in the lives of religious revolutionaries, such as Joanna Southcott or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. It charts the politics of the Pauline veil in the self-understanding of Europe and reads the 'genealogical halls' in the book of Chronicles alongside acts of commemoration and forgetting in 9/11 and Tiananmen Square.
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The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field

The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field

by Yvonne Sherwood (Editor)
The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field

The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field

by Yvonne Sherwood (Editor)

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This groundbreaking book breaks with established canons and resists some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. It features a wide range of contributors who showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms, intersectionality, postidentitarian 'nomadic' politics, gender archaeology, and lived religion, and theories of the human and the posthuman. The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field engages a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia, divorce and family law, abortion, 'pinkwashing', the neoliberal university, the second amendment, AIDS and sexual trafficking, and the politics of 'the veil'. Foundational figures in feminist biblical studies work alongside new voices and contributors from a multitude of disciplines in conversations with the Bible that go well beyond the expected canon-within-the-canon assumed to be of interest to feminist biblical scholars. Moving beyond the limits of a text-orientated model of reading, this collection looks at how biblical texts were actualized in the lives of religious revolutionaries, such as Joanna Southcott or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. It charts the politics of the Pauline veil in the self-understanding of Europe and reads the 'genealogical halls' in the book of Chronicles alongside acts of commemoration and forgetting in 9/11 and Tiananmen Square.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191034190
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/24/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 736
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

  • 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
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