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The Bible and Feminism Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent)

The Bible and Feminism By Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent)

Summary

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.

The Bible and Feminism Summary

The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field by Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent)

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 Ines 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.

The Bible and Feminism Reviews

The thrust of the collection is unashamedly interdisciplinary and has at least as much of a focus on post-biblical and contemporary use of the Bible as it does on feminist interpretation of the biblical text. * Deborah W. Rooke, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *
The Bible and Feminism is a book worthy of its size, heft, and breadth with provocative, erudite, scholarly, yet practical essays from thirty-seven contributors from Iran to Argentina. Due to the sharp editorial vision of Yvonne Sherwood, the volume is an essential contribution to global feminist biblical studies, and feminist religious and cultural studies. * Emily Zimbrick-Rogers, Anglican Theological Review *
The result is a must-read collected volume for whoever is interested in the many, yet to be fully explored, relationships between feminism and biblical texts. * Danilo Verde, Leuven, Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30 *

About Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent)

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 Okland: 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 Schussler 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. Garcia 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 Loewisch: 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 & 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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The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field by Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent)
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2019-08-29
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