Add to ORKG“Charlotte, we’re Jewish” says Cher in the opening scene of Mermaids, as she passes her adolescent daughter, Wynona Ryder genuflecting ecstatically at her private shrine to St. Perpetua. Charlotte abandons her worship of the martyr with a rather dramatic effect on her nascent sex life. What might it be about a young Christian woman tortured to death in the arena in third century North Africa that would so attract an American Jewish teenager as a model and ego ideal? In this lecture, I will investigate the figure of the virgin girl in both traditions, first as an ego-ideal for men and then as one for women, with startlingly different conclusions to the two analyses
The sexual representations and the sexual experiences of individuals are marked by the gender they b...
<p>Sex sells. A lot. But who exactly is on the market? </p><p>What kinds of bodies are calibrated fo...
The usually virulent, and occasionally murderous, homophobia of a number of Christian and Jewish den...
“Charlotte, we’re Jewish” says Cher in the opening scene of Mermaids, as she passes her adolescent...
In this chapter, I seek to problematize the virgin/whore binary which, I argue, has enabled, normali...
This thesis works to answer several questions as well as raise questions regarding the Madonna/Whore...
In my poetic analysis, I tease out the differences between Biblical and modern conceptions of rape. ...
The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of d...
A book about gender in the Dead Sea Scrolls is long overdue. For many years, the scholarly consensus...
Aware of the tradition of horizontal violence that divides women from each other and cognisant also ...
The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of d...
Throughout the Christian Bible and accompanying religious scriptures, female characters display comm...
The complexity of issues involved in the history of women demands and deserves a wider and more deta...
Modern Bible translations often mention ‘cult prostitutes’, female or male, and relate them to a god...
Feminist theology approaches the biblical teaching of the fall with a non-historical or traditional ...
The sexual representations and the sexual experiences of individuals are marked by the gender they b...
<p>Sex sells. A lot. But who exactly is on the market? </p><p>What kinds of bodies are calibrated fo...
The usually virulent, and occasionally murderous, homophobia of a number of Christian and Jewish den...
“Charlotte, we’re Jewish” says Cher in the opening scene of Mermaids, as she passes her adolescent...
In this chapter, I seek to problematize the virgin/whore binary which, I argue, has enabled, normali...
This thesis works to answer several questions as well as raise questions regarding the Madonna/Whore...
In my poetic analysis, I tease out the differences between Biblical and modern conceptions of rape. ...
The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of d...
A book about gender in the Dead Sea Scrolls is long overdue. For many years, the scholarly consensus...
Aware of the tradition of horizontal violence that divides women from each other and cognisant also ...
The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of d...
Throughout the Christian Bible and accompanying religious scriptures, female characters display comm...
The complexity of issues involved in the history of women demands and deserves a wider and more deta...
Modern Bible translations often mention ‘cult prostitutes’, female or male, and relate them to a god...
Feminist theology approaches the biblical teaching of the fall with a non-historical or traditional ...
The sexual representations and the sexual experiences of individuals are marked by the gender they b...
<p>Sex sells. A lot. But who exactly is on the market? </p><p>What kinds of bodies are calibrated fo...
The usually virulent, and occasionally murderous, homophobia of a number of Christian and Jewish den...