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This important new critical study explores the main features of contemporary feminist literary criticism in Great Britain, America and France. It shows how feminist critics, while writing out their critical "fathers", have created innovatory critical strategies in a new literary history. Maggie Humm outlines the general problematics within the field, examines the contribution of such contemporary feminist pioneers as Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett,...

21 women from the Old and 15 from the New Testaments: their stories, background, contemporary criticism, prayers, group questions and answers, and bibliography.

"By turns witty, erudite, probingly serious and sparklingly irreverent, these essays refresh our readings of the Bible, and deepen our vision of foundational feminist figures. A wonderfully thought-provoking and readable collection." EVA HOFFMANAuthor of EXIT INTO HISTORYThis is the first collection of essays in which women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity--reclaiming the Bible for women and showing readers that the Bible...

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.

Female sexual imagery in Hosea / T. Drorah Setel -- Every two minutes : battered women and feminist interpretation / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Feminist interpretation : a method of correlation / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The will to choose or to reject : continuing our critical work / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Authority and the challenge of feminist interpretation / Letty M. Russell -- Postscript : jottings on the journey / Phyllis Trible....

In the world that created the Bible, there were no female scholars and theologians; yet since World War II, owing to such stunning discoveries as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts and to advances in historical understanding, a new generation of scholars has found new ways of reading the Scriptures - including querying the role that male divines have traditionally assigned to women, both those who populate the Bible and those living in...

"Geography is a subject that throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations that form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts, and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge. This book offers a sustained examination of the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses." "Drawing on the...

"Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges...