Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era : : Women, Sex, and Public Discourse /

Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era : : Women, Sex, and Public Discourse / / edited by Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel.

The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problema...

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Superior document:Biblical Interpretation Series ; Volume 212
TeilnehmendeR:
Chavel, Simeon, 1969-
James, Elaine T., 1980-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 212.
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: The Song of Songs and Women’s Voices
  • Elaine James and Simeon Chavel
  • Part 1: The Song of Songs: Literary and Theoretical Approaches
  • 1 The Song of Songs and #MeToo
  • Critical Reading, Reparative Reading
  • Elaine James
  • 2 Sex in Public in the Song of Songs
  • Rhiannon Graybill
  • 3 The Speaker of the Song of Songs and Her Publics
  • Simeon Chavel
  • 4 Speaking of the Other
  • Interest and Love in Song 5:2–8
  • Sarah Zhang
  • Part 2: The Song of Songs in Historical Contexts
  • 5 The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine
  • F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp
  • 6 Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry
  • Martti Nissinen
  • 7 Recovering Women from the Scholars (Even from Me)
  • Deborah Green
  • 8 Singing the Song Anew
  • Hildegard of Bingen as Interpreter of the Song of Songs
  • Karl Shuve
  • 9 Women’s Voices and the Cost of Going Public
  • Song of Songs, Canonization and Safe Spaces
  • Anna Marsh
  • 10 The Gendering of Sexual Agency
  • Case Studies from Song of Songs 8:5–14 and an Infamous Indian Trial
  • Havilah Dharamraj
  • 11 Space and Regulation in the Song of Songs and Contemporary Sexual Politics
  • Yvonne Sherwood
  • 12 Thinking with Pink
  • Affective and Sensate Readings of Marc Chagall’s Song of Songs
  • Fiona Black
  • 13 How to Read the Work of ‘Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things’
  • Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship and the #MeToo Debate on Cultural Texts of Terror
  • Karen V. Guth
  • Index.

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