Jeremiah and Gender

2021 ◽  
pp. 660-675
Author(s):  
Christl M. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Gendered Language ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores salient features of gendered language and gender performance in Jeremiah from a feminist perspective. At first sight, the book witnesses a patriarchal world of male privilege and female subordination, which is expressed by gendered language and sexualized metaphors. The personification of Jerusalem—Judah as adulterous wife of YHWH and the devastation of her female body—generates horrific images that express the shame and humiliation of its ancient audiences, but are unbearable for postmodern readers. Inspecting some passages more closely, this chapter reveals flaws in this rhetoric of shaming and breaches in gender performance that help to deconstruct an allegedly rigid gender hierarchy and to seek ways to alternative interpretations of the divine-human relationship.

»Das Weibliche umschließt den starken Mann« (Jer 31,22). Geschlechterkonstruktionen im Jeremiabuch im Licht feministischer Hermeneutik

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Christl M. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Gender Aspects ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This essay explores variant concepts of gender in the book of Jeremiah from a feminist perspective that includes insights of post-colonial studies, trauma studies, and queer theory. It discusses the female personification of Jerusalem and Judah, the laboring woman metaphor used in the context of war, the complexity of gendered addressees in Jer 2:1-4:2, and gender aspects in the characterization of God and Jeremiah. At first glance, the Jeremiah tradents use traditional gender stereotypes. A closer inspection, however, reveals an ambivalent gender performance of female and male protagonists. In this context, the enigmatic statement in Jer 31:22 »the female encompasses the strong man« also signifies the ambivalence of gender concepts in Jeremiah.

To Provide and Protect: Gendering Money in Ukrainian Households

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadina L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Relative Income ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Boundaries ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this article, I advance a theory of gendered money and demonstrate how couples give special symbolic meaning to men’s money in domestic exchanges. Unlike previous perspectives on gender and money such as resource theories and gender performance, this framework acknowledges money as a prop and tool that couples use to construct gender boundaries and signal normalcy in the marital relationship. Integrating concepts from economic sociology with Hochschild’s insights on the symbolism of domestic labor, I find that Ukrainians use money as a token and symbol of value, not as a commodity with which to obtain desired outcomes. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 56 married and cohabiting individuals, I discover that couples subvert market meanings of money to enact a Soviet-style gender ideology. By spending men’s money on “necessary” items and avoiding accessing women’s money in the household, couples construct men’s money as both visible and valuable while rendering women’s money non-fungible. These practices highlight the primacy of culture and ideology over relative income, and can help explain the reproduction of male privilege in the household, despite gains in women’s employment and earnings.

Bunyan and Gender

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

John Bunyan’s writings have traditionally invited critical readings focusing on gender issues. With the scholarly recovery of the writings of radical sectarian women during the 1650s and 1660s and renewed study of libertine sexuality in the Restoration, our understanding of Bunyan’s representation of gender hierarchy and gender roles in his writings has become more complex. On the one hand, as a minister, he insisted on conformity to a biblically based gender hierarchy, and in works like The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) he condemned the fashionable display of sexuality. On the other hand, Bunyan conceptualized the nature of the human relationship with God as requiring men to perform feminine roles and women to take on masculine traits.

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