The Bible and feminism : remapping the field / edited by Yvonne Sherwood with the assistance of Anna Fisk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherwood, Yvonne, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Women in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Prophets and Revolutionaries

1 Death and the Maiden: Manifestos, Gender, Self-canonization, and Violence 15

2 Joanna Southcott and Mabel Barltrop: Interpreting Genesis and Revelation 45

3 The First Woman Question: Eve and the Women's Movement 61

4 Reflections on Reading the Bible: From Flesh to Female Genius 81

5 Another Esther: Sor Juana's Biblical Self-Portrait 98

6 Reading 'The Revelations of the Book / Whose Genesis was June': Emily Dickinson's Hermeneutics of the Heart 116

7 Toni Morrison's Shulamites: The African-American Song 133

8 Stood Weeping Outside the Tomb: Dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene 150

9 Feminist Remappings in Times of Neoliberalism 170

10 The Wandering Jewess: Feminism Seeks the Shekhinah 186

Part II An Unconventional Tour of the Biblical Canon, beyond the 'Canons' of Feminist/Womanist Criticism

11 The Inheritance of Gehinnom: Feminist Midrash as a Vehicle for Contemporary Bible Criticism 203

12 Moses, Feminism, and the Male Subject 223

13 Home at Last: The Local Domain and Female Power 240

14 Judges 3 and the Queer Hermeneutics of Carnophallogocentrism 261

15 Forget It: The Case of Women's Rituals in Ancient Israel, or How to Remember the Woman of Endor 277

16 Sexual Politics and Surveillance: A Feminist, Metonymic, Spinozan Reading of Psalm 139 296

17 A Foolish King, Women, and Wine: A Dangerous Cocktail from Lemuel's Mother 315

18 My Mother was a Wandering Aramaean: A Nomadic Approach to the Hebrew Bible 328

19 Queen Vashti's 'No' and What It Can Tell Us about Gender Tools in Biblical Narrative 343

20 Miriam Ben Amram, or, How to Make Sense of the Absence of Women in the Genealogies of Levi (1 Chronicles 5.27-6.66) 355

21 The Politics of Remembrance: Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9 and Haunting Memories in China 371

22 Corporal Ignorance: The Refusal of Embodied Memory 390

23 Can an Adulteress Save Jesus? The Pericope Adulterae, Feminist Interpretation, and the Limits of Narrative Agency 402

24 Pinkwashing Paul, Excepting Jesus: The Politics of Intersectionality, Identification, and Respectability 432

25 Embodied Temporalities: Health, Illness, and the Matter of Feminist Biblical Interpretation 454

26 Unveiling the European Woman 477

Part III Offpage: Actualizations and Performances of Scripture beyond Protestant Models of 'Reading'

27 The Ancient Goddess, the Biblical Scholar, and the Religious Past: Re-imaging Divine Women 495

28 Seeing Double: Textual and Archaeological Images of Israelite Women 514

29 'Limping, Yet Made to Climb a Mountain!' Re-Reading the Vashti Character in the HIV and AIDS South African Context 534

30 The Reproductive Rite: (In)Fertility in the Ashanti and Ancient Hebrew Context 548

31 'But I Still Read the Bible!': Post-Christian Women's Biblicalism 569

32 Sneaky Snakes: Seduction, the Biblical Imagination, and Activating Art 589

33 Material World: Gender and the Bible in Evangelical Purity Culture 608

34 Muslim Liberative Approaches and Legal Dilemmas Towards Gender Justice 622

35 Scripturalizing and the Second Amendment 634

36 The Impossibility of Queering the Mother: New Sightings of the Virgin Mother in the 'Secular' State 651.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9780191034183

0191034185

Publisher Number:

40027856441

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