God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible

by Stephen D. Moore

Book Overview

God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings staged not only in God's beauty parlor, but also in God's boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743312
• ISBN13: 9780804743310
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"