The Bible and feminism : remapping the field / edited by Yvonne Sherwood ; with the assistance of Anna Fisk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the Bible and feminism: remapping the field / Yvonne Sherwood -- Part I: Prophets and revolutionaries -- Death and the maiden: manifestos, gender self-canonization and violence / Jorunn Økland -- Joanna Southcott and Mabel Barltrop: interpreting Genesis and Revelation / Jane Shaw -- The first woman question: Eve and the women's movement / Holly Morse -- Reflections on reading the Bible: from flesh to female genius / Alison Jasper -- Another Esther: Sor Juana's biblical self portrait / Pamela Kirk Rappaport -- Reding 'The revelations of the book / Whose genesis was June': Emily Dickinson's hermeneutics of the heart / Jennifer Leader -- Toni Morrison's Shulamites: the African-American song / Ilana Pardes -- Stood weeping outside the tomb: dis(re)membering Mary Magdalene / Anna Fisk -- Feminist remappings in times of neoliberalism / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- The wandering Jewess: feminism seeks the shekhinah / Alicia Ostriker -- Part II: 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 / Deborah Kahn-Harris -- Moses, feminism, and the male subject / Jennifer L. Koosed -- Home at last: the local domain and female power / Rachel Havrelock -- Judges 3 and the queer hermeneutics of carnophallogocentrism / Ken Stone -- Forget it: the case of women's rituals in ancient Israel, or how to remember the Woman of Endor / Ann Jeffers -- Sexual politics and surveillance: a feminist, metonymic, Spinozan reading of Psalm 139 / rin Runions -- A foolish king, women and wine: a dangerous cocktail from Lemuel's mother / Mercedes L. Garcia Bachmann -- My mother was a wandering Aramaean: a nomadic approach to the Hebrew Bible / Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter -- Queen Vashti's 'no' and what it can tell us about gender tools in biblical narrative / Deborah F. Sawyer -- Miriam Ben Amram, or, how to make sense of the absence of women in the genealogies of Levi (1 Chronicles 5.27-6.66) / Ingeborg Lowisch -- The politics of remembrance: genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9 and haunting memories in China / Wong Wai Ching Angela -- Corporal ignorance: the refusal of embodied memory / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Can an adulteress save Jesus? The Pericope Adulterae, feminist interpretation, and the limits of narrative agency / Jennifer Knust -- Pinkwashing Paul, excepting Jesus: the politics of intersectionality, identification, and respectability / Joseph A. Marchal -- Embodied temporalities: health, illness, and the matter of feminist biblical interpretation / Denise K. Buell -- Unveiling the European woman / Fatima Tofighi -- Part III: Offpage: atualizations and performances of scripture beyond Protestant models of 'reading' -- The ancient goddess, the biblical scholar, and the religious past: re-imagining divine women / Francesca Stavrakopoulou -- Seeing double: textual and archaeological images of Israelite women / Carol Meyers -- 'Limping, yet made to climb a mountain!' Re-reading the Vashti character in the HIV and AIDS South African context / Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele) -- The reproductive rite: (in)fertility in the Ashanti and ancient Hebrew context / Janice Ewurama De-Whyte Sarfo -- 'But I still read the Bible!': post-Christian women's biblicalism / Dawn Llewellyn -- Sneaky snakes: seduction, the biblical imagination, and activiating art / Mieke Bal -- Material world: gender and the Bible in evangelical purity culture / Sara Moslener -- Muslim liberative approaches and legal dilemmas towards gender justice / Zayn Kassam -- Scripturalizing and the Second Amendment / Rosamond C. Rodman -- The impossibility of queering the mother: new sightings of the Virgin Mother in the 'secular' state / Yvonne Sherwood.