Full Description
This book explores the Bible's ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bible's complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of theglobal crisis of gender violence.
Contents
1: Introduction.- 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious.- 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture.- 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence .- 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study.- 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women.- 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium.- 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 .- 9: "To Ransom a Man's Soul": Male Rape and Gender Identity in Outlander and "The Suffering Man" of Lamentations 3.- 10: Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel.- 11: Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX .- 12: Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence inAotearoa New Zealand.
