Feminist revision and the Bible
By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
Series: The Bucknell lectures in literary theory ;; 7
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Bible -- Hermeneutics.; Women in the Bible.; Bible and literature.; Feminism -- Religious aspects.
Description: Extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding document of patriarchal culture, the Bible. At the same time, it re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic 'readings' of Biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. It proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within the Biblical text, suggesting that feminist reinterpretations of the Bible constitute an inevitable consequence of radical spiritual values at the core of scripture itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-145) and index.