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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Besharam roughly translates to "shameless" in Hindi. This book collects essays on love, dating, body image, consent, and other issues that women today relate to and men should be thinking about. Elias reflects on, and challenges, the ideas of how women are told by society to be humble, obedient, and ashamed of their actions and desires.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The author explores how biblical discourses shape our understanding of the world and "how reimagining the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world, and why we fail to embrace such an undertaking at our own peril."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Paulist Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The idea of a feminist approach to Scripture often produces knee-jerk reactions that one's in for mangled language at best and an anti-Christian attitude at worst. In this clear, highly readable work, Nicholas King explains the feminist approach to Scripture and the reasons and aims behind it. The author makes the approach accessible and sympathetic to those both interested in and alarmed by the topic.
Author
Publisher
Zero Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Recent years have seen a revival of the bitter and heated culture wars of the 1990s but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure and bizarre neo-reactionary and white separatist movements to geeky subcultures like 4chan to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side of the war, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue...
Author
Language
English
Description
This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves as well as men's perception of them. Here, Alice Bellis shares the research of feminist biblical scholarship during a quarter of a century, which renders a vast...
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical...
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Series
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of feminism, she reinterprets the tragic stories of four women in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine, and the daughter of Jephthah. In highlighting the silence, absence, and oppostition of God, as well as human cruelty, Trible shows how these neglected stories-interpreted in memoriam-challenge...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women's writing within, and also reframes the field's male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women's consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing...
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a prehistoric...
