Claiming her dignity : female resistance in the Old Testament / L. Juliana M. Claassens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Women in the Bible.

Violence in the Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 165 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2016]

Summary:

To be human means to resist dehumanization. In the darkest periods of human history, men and women have risen up and in many different voices said this one thing: "Do not treat me like this. Treat me like the human being that I am." Claiming Her Dignity explores a number of stories from the Old Testament in which women in a variety of creative ways resist the violence of war, rape, heterarchy, and poverty. Amid the life-denying circumstances that seek to attack, violate, and destroy the bodies and psyches of women, men, and children, the women featured in this book have in common that they absolutely refuse to succumb to the explicit, and at times subtle but no less harmful, manifestations of violence Book jacket.

Contents:

Resisting the violence of war

Resisting the violence of rape

Resisting the violence of patriarchy heterarchy

Resisting the violence of precarity.

Notes:

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Claassens, L. Juliana M., 1972- author. Claiming her dignity

ISBN:

9780814684191

081468419X

OCLC:

949869420