Womanist Wisdom in the Song of Songs Secrets of an African Princess /

• Main Author: Doukhan, Abi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Feminist theology.; Feminist theory.; Women.; Feminist Theology.; Feminism.; Women's Studies.

Belonging to Hebrew Wisdom literature, the Song of Songs offers a fresh look at love and relationships through its main female character, the Shulamite, which profoundly differs from traditional religious approaches to love and sexuality. Drawing from exegetical as well as philosophical sources, Abi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Unconventional Feminine
• Chapter 2: Virginity Re-Imagined
• Chapter 3: The Art of Seduction
• Chapter 4: A Room of Her Own
• Chapter 5: Infidelity's Dark Night
• Chapter 6: Secrets of Lovemaking
• Chapter 7: The Crucible of Grace
• Chapter 8: Is God a Woman?.