Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo era : women, sex, and public discourse / edited by Simeon B. Chavel, Elaine T. James.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chavel, Simeon, 1969- editor.

James, Elaine T., 1980- editor.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; volume 212

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Song of Solomon.

Feminist theory.

MeToo movement.

Physical Description:

ix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume prominently features women scholars and seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Song of Songs and women's voices / Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel

Part 1. The Song of Songs : literary and theoretical approaches. 1. The Song of Songs and #MeToo : critical reading, reparative reading / Elaine T. James ; 2. Sex in public in the Song of Songs / Rhiannon Graybill ; 3. The speaker of the Song of Songs and her publics / Simeon B. Chavel ; 4. Speaking of the other : interest and love in Song 5:2–8 / Sarah Zhang ; 5. The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp

Part 2. The Song of Songs in historical contexts. 6. Female voices in Akkadian love poetry / Martti Nissinen ; 7. Recovering women from the scholars (even from me) / Deborah A. Green ; 8. Singing the Song anew : Hildegard of Bingen as interpreter of the Song of Songs / Karl Shuve

Part 3. The Song of Songs in contemporary contexts. 9. Women's voices and the cost of going public : the Song of Songs, canonization and safe spaces / Anna E. Marsh ; 10. The gendering of sexual agency : case studies from Song of Songs 8:5–14 and an infamous Indian trial / Havilah Dharamraj ; 11. Space and regulation in the Song of Songs and contemporary sexual politics / Yvonne Sherwood ; 12. Thinking with pink : affective and sensate readings of Marc Chagall's Song of Songs / Fiona C. Black ; 13. How to read the work of 'great artists who have done terrible things' : feminist and womanist biblical scholarship and the #MeToo debate on cultural texts of terror / Karen V. Guth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo era

ISBN:

9789004543928

9004543929

OCLC:

1381127319