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New Testament Studies: Feminist Criticism
Resources available at Yale Divinity Library for New Testament studies.
Feminism and Christian Tradition by Mary-Paula WalshAnnotated bibliography, 1960s – 1990s, on feminism and Christian tradition. Major feminist theologians and sociologists are represented. Historical essays overview of feminism in relation to the women's movement, women's studies, sociology and American religion. Cross-referenced.
I Found God in Me by Mitzi J. SmithWomanist biblical hermeneutics reader. Articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. Most articles deal with OT.
Womanist Interpretations of the Bible by Gay L. Byron; Vanessa LovelaceWomanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse brings together cross-generational and cross-cultural readings of the Bible and other sacred sources by including scholars from the Caribbean, India, and Africa who have not traditionally fit into the narrow U.S., African American paradigm for understanding womanist biblical interpretation. The volume engages the reader in a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and perspectives, such as gender and feminist criticism, social-scientific methods, post-colonial and psychoanalytical theory that emphasize the inherently intersectional dynamics of race, ethnicity, and class at work in womanist thought and analysis.
Introduction to Feminist Criticism of the New Testament
A Feminist Introduction to Paul by Sandra Hack PolaskiReinterprets overlooked, neglected, misintegrated, or differently interpreted Pauline texts, making visible the invisible and challenging the accepted readings. Uncovers both the ideologies behind the text and the ideologies the text seeks to suppress.
Postcolonial Feminist Criticism of the New Testament
The Politics of Heaven by Joseph A. MarchalChallenges Pauline studies to engage the full range of critical challenges brought by feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and Roman imperial studies. A feminist, postcolonial analysis. Philippians as a test case.
Woman and Nation by Jean Kyoung KimReads the Gospel of John from a postcolonial feminist perspective as a patriarchal nationalist discourse. Examines effects of colonialism in twentieth-century Korean cultural experience, as seen in social memory or oral traditions, to develop an intercontextual lens through which she examines the role of the Johannine female characters.
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology by Explores feminist theology: developments, concerns, questions, answers. Online available.
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theology by Highlights the relevance of globalization and of gender studies and religious studies for feminist theology. 21st century focus. Inclusive. Online available.
Feminism and Christian Tradition by Annotated bibliography, 1960s – 1990s, on feminism and Christian tradition. Major feminist theologians and sociologists are represented. Historical essays overview of feminism in relation to the women's movement, women's studies, sociology and American religion. Cross-referenced.
I Found God in Me by Womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. Articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. Most articles deal with OT.
Womanist Interpretations of the Bible by Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse brings together cross-generational and cross-cultural readings of the Bible and other sacred sources by including scholars from the Caribbean, India, and Africa who have not traditionally fit into the narrow U.S., African American paradigm for understanding womanist biblical interpretation. The volume engages the reader in a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and perspectives, such as gender and feminist criticism, social-scientific methods, post-colonial and psychoanalytical theory that emphasize the inherently intersectional dynamics of race, ethnicity, and class at work in womanist thought and analysis.
Wisdom Ways by Challenges traditional Biblical interpretation. Geared towards feminist readers.
Feminist Biblical Interpretation by Proceeds book-by-book much like a commentary. Popular entree into feminist NT criticism in Europe.
Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings by New Testament commentary series focuses on feminist exegesis.
Wisdom Commentary Series by This commentary series covers the entire Bible and focuses on feminist exegesis.
A Feminist Introduction to Paul by Reinterprets overlooked, neglected, misintegrated, or differently interpreted Pauline texts, making visible the invisible and challenging the accepted readings. Uncovers both the ideologies behind the text and the ideologies the text seeks to suppress.
The Politics of Heaven by Challenges Pauline studies to engage the full range of critical challenges brought by feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and Roman imperial studies. A feminist, postcolonial analysis. Philippians as a test case.
Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible by Attends to and respects needs of women in the two-thirds world. Reads Gospel of Matthew as decolonizing rather than imperialist literature.
A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology by Conducted by Latina feminist theologians, feminist theologies of liberation. Adds U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse. Treats popular religion, denominational presence and attraction, methodology, lived experience, analysis of nationhood, and interpretations of life lived on a border that is not only geographic but also racial, gendered, linguistic, and religious. Online available.
Introducing Asian Feminist Theology by Contributors include community organizers, theological students, church leaders and social activists.
Making Paper Cranes: toward an Asian American feminist theology by Engages the social histories, literary texts, and narratives of Asian American women, as well as the theological projects of prominent Asian American feminist theologians. Liberative theological voice.
