Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion Biblical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blyth, Caroline (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Colgan, Emily (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Edwards, Katie B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Religion and Radicalism
• Subjects: Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Sociology.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Religion and Gender.; Gender Studies.; Sexual Behavior.

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 vi...

Table of 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 in Aotearoa New Zealand.