{"id":7905,"date":"2017-09-26T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T11:24:59","slug":"yvonne-sherwood-on-the-bible-and-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/26\/yvonne-sherwood-on-the-bible-and-feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Sherwood on the Bible and feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/sherwood.html\">Yvonne Sherwood<\/a>, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has just edited a new collection entitled <em>The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The book promises to be a groundbreaking work, departing from established canons and resisting some of the stereotypes of feminist biblical studies. It features a wide range of contributors who showcase new methodological and theoretical movements such as feminist materialisms, intersectionality, postidentitarian &#8216;nomadic&#8217; politics, gender archaeology, and lived religion, and theories of the human and the posthuman.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field\u00a0<\/em>engages a range of social and political issues, including migration and xenophobia, divorce and family law, abortion, &#8216;pinkwashing&#8217;, the neoliberal university, the second amendment, AIDS and sexual trafficking, and the politics of &#8216;the veil&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The collection\u00a0combines new interventions from key figures in the field of feminist Biblical Studies with work from younger scholars and academics from a wide range of disciplines, with over 37 chapters over 700 pages in total.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the Oxford University Press page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-bible-and-feminism-9780198722618\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-bible-and-feminism-9780198722618<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yvonne Sherwood, Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics in the Department of Religious Studies, has just edited a new collection entitled The Bible and Feminism: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/26\/yvonne-sherwood-on-the-bible-and-feminism\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}