Feminist Revision and the Bible: His Life and Legacy

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Book Overview

What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. The author proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways, which both critique biblical misogyny and stem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631187987
• ISBN13: 9780631187981
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"