Unsafe sex: feminism, pornography, and the Song of Songs
How should the Song of Song be read? As that rarest of biblical texts, one that gives voice to female desire in the context of a sexual relationship characterized by equality and mutuality rather than domination and submission? Or as yet another vehicle for male pornographic fantasy and sexual aggre...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2003
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2003, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-52 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Song of Songs
/ Eroticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Feminism
B Sexuality B Song of Songs |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | How should the Song of Song be read? As that rarest of biblical texts, one that gives voice to female desire in the context of a sexual relationship characterized by equality and mutuality rather than domination and submission? Or as yet another vehicle for male pornographic fantasy and sexual aggression? Attempting to shift the (dualistic) terms of this burgeoning debate on the Song, this article explicitly situates itself at the intersection of feminist and queer theories, focusing especially on s/m eroticism as a site where these theories forcefully collide and delicately collude, and arguing that feminist and queer politics can ill-afford to exclude each other. |
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| ISSN: | 0927-2569 |
| Contains: | In: Biblical interpretation
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