Call for Participants: Survival & Recovery in Victim-Survivors of Adult Clergy Sexual Abuse by Johanna Stiebert on April 20, 2026 share 215
What’s Rape Culture Got to Do with the Book of Ruth? by Deborah Kahn-Harris on October 8, 2018 share 27.3K Today's post is by Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris, Principal of Leo Baeck College in London, where she also lectures in read more
The Handmaid’s Jail: Framing sexual assault and rape narratives in biblical comics (video) by Zanne Domoney-Lyttle on October 3, 2018 share 6.76K Abstract: With an increase in comic book representations of biblical stories on our bookshelves, discussions surrounding how to approach retellings read more
Fuzzy, Messy, Icky: The Edges of Consent in Biblical Rape Narratives and Rape Culture by Rhiannon Graybill on September 29, 2018 share 14.7K The following post is a version of the closing keynote paper by Rhiannon Graybill ([email protected]), presented at the Shiloh Conference read more
Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction (video) by Miryam Sivan on September 21, 2018 share 4.08K Abstract: When American Jewish writers write about sexual violence against Jewish women in the Holocaust, they talk around the subject. read more
The Handmaid’s Jail: Framing Sexual Assault and Rape Narratives in Biblical Comics by Zanne Domoney-Lyttle on September 18, 2018 share 6.47K Zanne Domoney-Lyttle teaches and researches at the University of Glasgow. Her research centres on comic book and graphic novel adaptations read more
Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction by Miryam Sivan on September 14, 2018 share 10.8K Negotiating the Silence: Sexual Violence in Israeli Holocaust Fiction by Dr Miryam Sivan Miryam Sivan lectures at the University of read more
Religion as Gender Politics by Daphne Hampson on September 10, 2018 share 4.35K Abstract: Far from being an unintended consequence of those ideologies which are religions, the subordination of women may be central read more
Research as Resistance: Survival strategies for researching violence by Rachel Starr on September 4, 2018 share 3.74K Abstract: Feminist research into violence, within sacred texts, traditions and contemporary contexts, tends to be motivated by a desire to read more
“A man cannot in law be convicted of rape upon his own wife”: Custom, Christianity, Colonialism, and Sexual Consent in Forced Marriage Cases, British colonial Africa, 1932-1945 by Rhian Keyse on August 30, 2018 share 4.28K The mid-twentieth century saw an upsurge in campaigns around forced and early marriage in British colonial Africa, as missionaries, feminist read more
“My prayers weren’t being answered”: The Intersection of Religion and Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Claire Cunnington on August 28, 2018 share 2.96K Abstract: Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this paper draws on a thematic analysis of an online qualitative survey (n=143) and read more