Research Catalog

Title

Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo era : women, sex, and public discourse / edited by Simeon B. Chavel, Elaine T. James.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chavel, Simeon, 1969-
• James, Elaine T., 1980-

Description

ix, 347 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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 problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume prominently features women scholars and seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall"--

Series Statement

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; volume 212

Subject

• Bible
• Feminist theory
• MeToo movement
• Theories

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: The Song of Songs and women's voices / Elaine T. James and Simeon B. Chavel -- Part 1. The Song of Songs : literary and theoretical approaches. 1. The Song of Songs and #MeToo : critical reading, reparative reading / Elaine T. James ; 2. Sex in public in the Song of Songs / Rhiannon Graybill ; 3. The speaker of the Song of Songs and her publics / Simeon B. Chavel ; 4. Speaking of the other : interest and love in Song 5:2-8 / Sarah Zhang ; 5. The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine / F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp -- Part 2. The Song of Songs in historical contexts. 6. Female voices in Akkadian love poetry / Martti Nissinen ; 7. Recovering women from the scholars (even from me) / Deborah A. Green ; 8. Singing the Song anew : Hildegard of Bingen as interpreter of the Song of Songs / Karl Shuve -- Part 3. The Song of Songs in contemporary contexts. 9. Women's voices and the cost of going public : the Song of Songs, canonization and safe spaces / Anna E. 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 C. 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.

Call Number

JFE 24-1086

ISBN

• 9789004543928
• 9004543929
• 9789004543935 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023010593

OCLC

1381127319

Title

Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo era : women, sex, and public discourse / edited by Simeon B. Chavel, Elaine T. James.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; volume 212

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Chavel, Simeon, 1969- editor.

James, Elaine T., 1980- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo era Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023 9789004543935 (DLC) 2023010594

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1086