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Zusatztext Bloomsbury is to be much commended for making professor Exum’s seminal work accessible to new generations of scholars. Elegantly combining the critical and constructive tasks of feminism, Fragmented Women defies the often assumed opposition between second and third-wave. It also efficiently demonstrates how much literary readings have to gain from thoroughly questioning the surface ideology of texts. After two decades of rapid theoretical development, the impact and importance of the work appears all the more clearly. The political edge of specifically feminist criticism is not outdated and much work still remains to be done. Informationen zum Autor J. Cheryl Exum is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Sheffield University. Klappentext In the biblical narratives, women are usually minor characters in the stories of men. Fragments of women's stories must be gleaned from the more cohesive stories of their fathers, husbands and sons. Fragmented Women begins with the premise that, to recover shards of women's stories from androcentric texts like the Bible, it is necessary to step outside the ideology of the text, subverting the patriarchal perspective that has focused attention on the male characters. In this classic work, J. Cheryl Exum draws on feminist literary theory to critique the dominant male voice of the biblical narrative and to construct (sub)versions of women's stories from the submerged strains of their voices in men's stories. For this Cornerstones edition Exum has provided a reflective introduction on the book's impact, and upon how the field has changed since it was published. Vorwort This ground-breaking work draws on feminist literary theory to reveal the stories of women hidden in the narratives of men in the Bible. Zusammenfassung In the biblical narratives, women are usually minor characters in the stories of men. Fragments of women's stories must be gleaned from the more cohesive stories of their fathers, husbands and sons. Fragmented Women begins with the premise that, to recover shards of women's stories from androcentric texts like the Bible, it is necessary to step outside the ideology of the text, subverting the patriarchal perspective that has focused attention on the male characters. In this classic work, J. Cheryl Exum draws on feminist literary theory to critique the dominant male voice of the biblical narrative and to construct (sub)versions of women's stories from the submerged strains of their voices in men's stories. For this Cornerstones edition Exum has provided a reflective introduction on the book’s impact, and upon how the field has changed since it was published. Inhaltsverzeichnis Reflective Introduction Preface Ch. 1: Murder They Wrote Ch. 2: Michal: The Whole Story Ch. 3: Samson's Women Ch. 4: The (M)other's Place Ch. 5: Who's Afraid of the Endangered Ancestress? Ch. 6: Raped by the Pen Bibliography Index of Biblical References Index of Authors Cited ...
