- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (18 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415174848
- ISBN-13: 978-0415174848
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,514,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly those of Luce Irigaray and Judith Butler), which have unravelled given notions of power and constructed identity. Through the study of gender in terms of its application by biblical writers as a theological strategy, we can observe how these writers use female characters to undermine human masculinity, through their 'higher' intention to elevate the biblical God. God Gender and the Bible demonstrates that both maleness and femaleness are constructed in the light of divine omnipotence. Unlike many approaches to the Bible that offer hegemonist interpretations, such as those that are explicitly Christian or Jewish, or liberationist or feminist, this enlightening and readable study sustains and works with the inconsistencies evident in biblical literature.
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I'm rating the book with a 3 at the moment because I am reviewing the product review of the book and not the actual book itself - and since I haven't read this book yet I still believe that perhaps there is some interesting stuff there, I will be neutral and rate it in the middle. My main concern here is in giving my feedback to Amazon about the questionable product description. It's necessary feedback in order to help Amazon improve it's quality of service to customers. There should be room for us to review the various product reviews that we look at before buying a book. Most product reviews I have read have been rather neutral but this one is dodgy because it claims that "unlike many approaches to the Bible that offer hegemonist interpretations, such as those that are explicitly Christian or Jewish, or liberationist or feminist, this enlightening and readable study sustains and works with the inconsistencies evident in biblical literature." I am not denying for one minute that this book is a vivdly refreshing look at these issues however, I will maintain that the use of the term "hegemonist" to describe the four worldviews mentioned is unfair and basically a scathing attack on these worldviews -I don't think anyone who identifies their own worldview as liberationist, for instance, would appreciate being labeled a "hegemonist" because the term "hegemonist" specifically refers to ideological outlooks that construct approaches to solving social problems that are precisely the opposite of liberation-centered approaches. You could of course validate the argument that the ideologies of empire or colonialism are in fact "hegemonist" but to douse individual cultures and liberation-centered paradigms in descriptive language that implicates these cultures and worldviews in the vein of political villainry is just downright xenophobically unreflexive, reactionary and basically hegemonist in and of itself. Amazon, I think you could do with an improvement in your product description write-ups insofar as this book and these issues are concerned.
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