Yes, it's so great to see that feminists are interested in reclaiming the Bible and not ceding it to those who distort it to their own ends! The link to the book is in the original at RD... thanks for (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
"I mean, seriously, youre trying to claim youre some expert when you mention above (pathetically and desperately) that virgin in Mary's time meant that you havent had a baby? Yeah right! Scholars would tell you that you were wrong!" False. (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
I was taught that Mary matters, not because she's a virgin, but because she's the first disciple of Christ. The first person to believe the prophecy - the first person to trust in her son. There's a lot of power (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
Thank you for clearly articulating exactly what I was thinking in response to all of the 'you must have nothing to do with sexist systems!' type comments. Not only have state democracies been extremely sexist in terms of voting rights, (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
I've read some historically-based writing in that vein, but haven't ever read Wendy Brown's work. I will definitely check her out. Thanks! I think all of this is the perennial question for any reformist/social movements- Can "the system," whichever system (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
I came across this comment on another blog that I found really helpful: "I think the problem is that there is a fundamentalist way of reading the Bible, that starts from certain presuppositions. Starting from those presuppositions, you get a (posted to Feminist Poet & Critic Takes Back the Bible)
