Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.05
John Jerome Markowski
Abstract:Harmful interpretations of the blood rites for menstruating and postpartum women in Leviticus 12 have sown seeds of misogyny for two millennia. While this text has often been criticized for its patriarchal perspective, this article demonstrates how male participation in Lev 12:1-8 provides unexpected support for women during their blood cycles. First, through historical analysis of postpartum and menses misogyny, the author holds androcentric religious agendas accountable for female blood taboos, rather than scripture itself. Second, Markowski provides a close Hebrew textual analysis of Lev 12 to suggest that ancient Israelite men function as allies to bleeding women, not enemies. Third, he shows how cross-cultural narratives and practices of menstrual rest and maternity leave, supported by anthropological research and feminist scholarship, confirm the collaboration described in the biblical text. Surprisingly, ancient biblical male-female partnerships offer modern society inspiring role models for empowering and liberating biblical family values.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.04
Nahed Ashqar-Sharary
Abstract:This article explores the practice of Islamic feminist ijtihad (IFI), which is a critical feminist stance toward religious texts and is the leading approach of Palestinian Islamic feminist women in Israel. Ijtihad means to expand one's capacities and use them to the utmost. In particular, it embodies the effort to learn and undertake religious interpretation. This article analyzes the dual challenges of Israeli hegemony and the patriarchal interpretation of Islam in the complex political reality of Israel/Palestine today. It is based on semistructured interviews with activists from the Women and Horizons Association (WHA), an Islamic feminist organization that emerged under Israeli settler colonialism. The findings show that a critical view of religious texts contributes to constructing a feminist Islamic interpretation dedicated to improving women's status and furthering their struggle against the intersecting power structures of patriarchal Islam and Israeli policies designed to dismantle Islamic religious power and prevent its resurgence.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.12
Mónica I. Rey
{"title":"A Reflection on Love Between Women and The Importance of Embodied Thinking in Research, the Academy, Politics, and Life","authors":"Mónica I. Rey","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"55 1","pages":"155 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82840497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.07
M. S. Thompson
Abstract:This essay analyzes the ways in which sacraments were used as weapons of control in nineteenth-century women's religious life. While most instances involve clerics as the wielders of such weapons, some instances of sisters themselves, and even laymen, doing so are also included. Focus is primarily on sisters being denied Communion, restrictions on the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, and regimentation of confession. Particular but not exclusive targets of such ecclesial violence were women who were considered to be deviant or insufficiently submissive, many of them "dangerous" women in leadership. The author places this analysis in the theoretical context of kyriarchy and concludes with feminist analysis of the implications of Pope Pius X's edicts on frequent and early Communion as mechanisms for clericalizing Catholic praxis and piety. The inquiry makes extensive use of archival sources from numerous congregations as well as obscure published histories and memoirs.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.13
Chris Cobb
{"title":"Love Between Women in the Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca","authors":"Chris Cobb","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"1_OS 1","pages":"161 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87307487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.11
J. Glancy
{"title":"Intersectionality and The Archives in Love Between Women","authors":"J. Glancy","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"54 2 1","pages":"149 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77911094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.02
J. Douglass
Abstract:This tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether was presented in her honor at the Friends of Sabeel North America Conference, October 7, 2017. The editors at JFSR are grateful to Jane Dempsey Douglass for allowing us to publish it in honor of Rosemary's memory and generational significance to feminist studies in religion on her passing this May 21, 2022.
{"title":"The Doors She Opened: Honoring Rosemary Radford Ruether","authors":"J. Douglass","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This tribute to Rosemary Radford Ruether was presented in her honor at the Friends of Sabeel North America Conference, October 7, 2017. The editors at JFSR are grateful to Jane Dempsey Douglass for allowing us to publish it in honor of Rosemary's memory and generational significance to feminist studies in religion on her passing this May 21, 2022.","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"18 1","pages":"14 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89052969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.14
Sarojini Nadar
{"title":"Epistemologically Privileging Anger: Living with Cracked Containers in Feminist Scholarship","authors":"Sarojini Nadar","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"105 1","pages":"59 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80705724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.08
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
{"title":"On Living With Affect Alientation Within A “Master’s House”","authors":"Jacqueline M. Hidalgo","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"43 1","pages":"35 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78691205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.18
M. Moultrie, Sarah Emanuel
{"title":"A Response from the LAB","authors":"M. Moultrie, Sarah Emanuel","doi":"10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44347,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION","volume":"8 1","pages":"75 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83733202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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