International day of the girl child by Johanna Stiebert on October 11, 2018 share 4.12K Today, 11 October, marks the United Nations International Day of the Girl Child. The day was first marked in 2012 read more
What’s Rape Culture Got to Do with the Book of Ruth? by Deborah Kahn-Harris on October 8, 2018 share 27.8K 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 7.14K 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 15K 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 4.24K 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 6.65K 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 10.9K 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 4.49K 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 3.89K 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 4.45K The mid-twentieth century saw an upsurge in campaigns around forced and early marriage in British colonial Africa, as missionaries, feminist read more