The Bible and Feminism Remapping the Field

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Prophets and Revolutionaries Death and the Maiden : Manifestos, Gender, Self-Canonization and Violence ................15 Joanna Southcott and Mabel Barltrop: Interpreting Genesis and Revelation ............45 The First woman Question: Eve and the Women`s Movement .........61 Reflections on Reading the Bible : From Flesh to Female Genius .............81 Another Esther-Sor Juana`s Biblical Self- Portrait .........98 Reading the Revelations of the Book / Whose Genesis was June : Emily Dickinson`s Hermeneutics of the Heart ...................116 Toni Morrison`s Shulamites : The African - American Song .............133 Stood Weeping Outside the Tomp: Dis(re)Membering Mary Magdalene .................150 Feminist Remappings in Times of Neoliberalism ................170 The Wandering Jewes: Feminism Seeks the Shekhinah .........186 2. An Unconventional Tour of the Biblical Canon, Beyond the Canons of Feminist /womanist Criticism The Inheritance of Gehinnom: Feminist midrash as a Vehicle for Contemporary Bible Criticism ............203 Moses, Feminism, and the Male Subject ...........223 Home at last: the Local Domain and Female power ........240 Judges 3 and the Queer Hermeneutics of Carnophallogocentrism .........261 Forget It : The Case of Women`s Rituals in Ancient Israel, or How to Remember the Woman of Endor ........277 Sexual Politics and Surveillance : A Feminist, Metonymic, Spinozan reading of Psalm 139...............296 A Foolish king, women and wine: A Dangerous cocktail from Lemuel`s Mother ..............315 My Mother was a Wandering aramaean : A Nomadic Approach to the Hebrew Bible .............328 Queen vashti`s No and What it can Tell us about Gender tools in Biblical Narrative...............343 Miriam Ben Amram, or, How to Make Sense of the Absence of Women in the Genealogies of Levi ............355 The politics of Remembrance: Genealogies of I chronicles 1-9 and Haunting Memories in China .............371 Corporal Ignorance: The Refusal Of Embodied Memory ...............390 Can an Adulteress save Jesus ? The Pericope Adulterae, Feminist Interpretation, and the Limits of Narrative Agency ............402 Pinkwashing Paul, Excepting Jesus: The Politics of Intersectionality, Identification, and Respectability ..............432 Embodied Temporalities : Health, Illness, and the Matter of Feminist Biblical Interpretation..................454 Unveiling the European Woman ............477 3. Offpage: Actualizations and performances of Scripture Beyond Protestant models of Reading The Ancient Goddess, The Biblical Scholar, and the Religious Past: Re-Imaging Divine Women ...............495 Seeing Double: Textual and Archaeological Images of Israelite Women .............514 Limping, Yet made to Climb a Mountain Re-Reading the Vashti Character in the HIV and AIDS south Africa Context .................534 The Reproductive Rite : (In)Fertility in the Ashanti and Ancient Hebrew Context ................548 But I still Read the bible : Post-Christian Women`s Biblicalism .............569 Sneaky Snakes: Seduction, the Biblical Imagination , and Activating Art ..............589 Material world : Gender and the Bible in Evangelical Purity Culture ..........608 Muslim Liberative approaches and Legal Dilemmas towards gender Justice .............622 Scripturalizing and the Second Amendment ...........634 The impossibility of Queering the Mother : New Sightings of the Virgin mother in the Secular State .................651