Female masculinity in Corinth?
Arguments about the meaning of genders and bodies, authority and nature, clothing and comportment ring throughout Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and persist into a range of more contemporary contexts. Interpretation of one such passage within the letter (11:1-16) remains both difficult...
| Published in: | Neotestamentica |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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NTWSA
2014
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
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| Further subjects: | B
Head shaving
B The Corinthian women B Drag B Androgyny B Queer Theory B Performativity B Temporality B Female masculinity B Prophecy |
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| Summary: | Arguments about the meaning of genders and bodies, authority and nature, clothing and comportment ring throughout Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and persist into a range of more contemporary contexts. Interpretation of one such passage within the letter (11:1-16) remains both difficult and important, but can be aided and altered by further engagement with queer theories outside of religious and theological studies. While in many ways queer forms of biblical studies are still just getting started, greater conversation with feminist and queer theories present different directions that prove particularly relevant for passages like these. Conceptualizations like gendered performativity, female masculinity, and queer temporality help readers reimagine the potential relations within ancient Corinth and between communities of the past, present, and future. Performativity highlights and critiques the practices of citation, repetition, and imitation that make regular appearances in texts like 1 Cor 11. Female masculinity, then, traces the citations of gendered orders and resignifies the potential changes in bodily comportment. Once combined with queer approaches to history and time, these concepts reconfigure persistent references to a range of times (both primordial and proximate), lagging and dragging into (twenty-)first-century concepts and practices of the body. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC160021 |