The Religious Feminist Subject as Material-Discursive Circuit: A Christian Woman Reads and Re-reads Eve
This article describes three different readings of the creation story of Eve and Adam, occurring over the life span of Henny Dons, a Protestant Christian and first-wave feminist in early-twentieth-century Norway. I discuss her changing understandings of this creation account over the course of her l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Religion & gender
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 153-172 |
| Further subjects: | B
Reading
B Feminism B Language B New Materialism B the subject B Christianity |
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| Summary: | This article describes three different readings of the creation story of Eve and Adam, occurring over the life span of Henny Dons, a Protestant Christian and first-wave feminist in early-twentieth-century Norway. I discuss her changing understandings of this creation account over the course of her life. More broadly I explore her approach to biblical reading (as receiving, arranging, and iterating) and how this shaped her as a religious feminist subject. I argue that what is going on in her iterated re-readings is not fully captured by the frame of self-cultivation. Rather, this religious feminist subject shows us a series of woman-word operations that receive and arrange a variety of material and discursive entities together in a circuit of “being created woman.” |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-tat00001 |