Coined by Lelia Gonzalez, one of the premier thinkers of Afro-Brazilian feminisms, the term Amefricanidade or Amefricanity references both the black diaspora and indigenous populations of the ...Americas, signaling their histories of resistance as colonized peoples. Like Gonzalez and contemporary black Brazilian feminist theorist Claudia Pons Cardoso, a contributor to this volume, they propose Amefricanidade as a priviledged epistemology that enhances the visibility of Afro-decendant feminisms in Latin America, thinks from within those decolonial histories of struggle, and pursues an interconnected approach to racism, colonialism, imperialism and its effects. Despite their relative invisibility in the US, Afro-descendant feminisms have advanced radical re-imaginings of not only mainstream or hegemonic Latin American feminisms, but also of race, gender, sexuality, democracy, health, development, cultural production, generation, citizenship, and other issues and ideas that are central to feminist theory. Given the power asymmetries governing the movements of people, ideas, and texts between the Global North and South.
In the nineteenth century, women did not gain admission to universities to study biblical languages and the new “higher criticism.” This does not mean, however, that women did not undertake critical, ...scholarly interpretation of the Bible. This essay examines how two late nineteenth-century American authors—Harriett Beecher Stowe and Ellen Battelle Dietrick—challenged church- and academy-based interpretation of Paul's female colleagues, Lydia, Prisca, and Phoebe. Through their own ideological lenses influenced by the church, American culture, and women's rights movements, they each engaged academic arguments and critiqued the gendered biases that shaped how male scholars and clerics interpreted primary sources and created arguments about biblical women.
This collection of studies, reflecting developments in feminist exegesis over the last few years in Europe and the United States, includes treatments of key female figures ('Tamar and the "Coat of ...Many Colours"' by Adrien Janis Bledstein; 'Michal, the Barren Wife' by Lillian R. Klein; 'On Centering a Fringe Figure: The Wife of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 14: 1-18' by Uta Schmidt; 'The Widow of Zarephath and the Great Woman of Shunem: A Comparative Analysis of Two Stories' by Jopie Siebert-Hommes), and a new examination of a biblical threesome, 'Saul, David and Jonathan: The Story of a Triangle? A Contribution to the Issue of Homosexuality in the First Testament' by Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli.
Berg describes how "sex work" comes to have a liberal meaning as an "equal exchange," obscuring it as another form of exploitative labor, while Roy and Henry pose leftist-feminist critiques of ...neoliberalization with a critical eye on the expanding space of feminist ngos in India and Scandinavia; Japanese feminism in Yamaguchi's account, on the other hand, is cast by its opponents as a "Marxist, evil scheme." Instead of a "mosaic epistemology," where knowledge systems based on different cultures, identities, or historical experiences assert their own separate and parallel claims to validity, Connell proposes an approach that reflects the increasingly interconnected world we live in: she imagines a goal "to create, within the worldwide counterpublic, processes for mutual learning and interactive thinking about theoretical questions," asserting that, "given the current shape of the global economy of knowledge, the vital need right now is to give recognition, indeed centrality, to theoretical work from the South."
This essay considers the relation between the conduct and the personae of the feminist, the historian and the jurisprudent; and, the writing of history and of jurisprudence. It does so treating part ...of the relation between historiography and jurisprudence as engaged as an art of selffashioning, in the preparation for an 'institutionalised social office'. The immediate purpose of this essay is to show how these arts of self fashioning came to be inherited by Australian feminism. In doing so, I will assert the centrality of Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex in that tradition. I suggest that acknowledging this practice and its inheritance is important when considering how we might live productively the plurality of institutional life and the life lived - in law, and for our present.
This book reveals some of the critical success factors behind two of history's most successful campaigns for equality - the Votes for Women campaign and the Women's Liberation Movement, providing ...answers to many of the dilemmas faced my modern day campaigners.
While the Wisdom volume in the first Feminist Companion series investigated multiple aspects of characterizations of women found in Wisdom literature, the 13 essays in this volume move beyond the ...study of the characterization of females that formed one of the first steps of modern feminist criticism-the recovery of what had been ignored or trivialized by androcentric readings dominant through the centuries. This second volume takes up questions of voice, exclusion and construction as well as the reinforcement of world views that, while perhaps necessary to the survival of the postexilic community as a whole, nevertheless left a legacy of continued gender asymmetry in Judaism and Christianity.
The only consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it is a notoriously 'problematic' text. Sherwood unpicks this rather vague statement by examining the particular complexities of the text ...and frictions between the text and reader that conspire to produce such a disorientating effect. Four dimensions of the 'problem' are considered: the conflict between text and reader over the 'improper' relationship between Hosea and Gomer; the bizarre prophetic sign-language that conscripts people into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its central theses; and the emergent tensions between the feminist reader and the text. Aiming to bring together literary criticism and biblical scholarship, this book provides lucid introductions to ideological criticism, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist criticism, and looks at the implications of these approaches not only for the book of Hosea but for biblical studies in general.
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