Sentences with phrase «by feminist scholars»

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Whereas in the»70s my «public image» was marked by scholarly bifurcation — among scholars I was known as an «expert» on the Apocalypse and among women as an emerging feminist theologian — this perception has changed dramatically in the»80s.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

This gives womanist scholars the freedom to explore the particularities of black women's history and culture without being guided by what white feminists have already identified as women's issues.

Readers of literature will find it too shallow, scholars of history will find it skewed, feminists will think it too masculine, filmmakers will be distracted by the inept camera work, and generally anyone will respond as Goldilocks.

With this book, Showalter adds much - needed perspective to women's literature, putting works rediscovered by feminist literary scholars into historical context.

Comprising 22 gouache paintings from her 1947 Paris debut, it was curated by the French American scholar Natasha Boas, who recasts Baya's legacy within critical, contemporary, feminist contexts.

Balshaw also commented on the instantly successful new section for 2017, Sex Work, curated by independent curator and scholar Alison M. Gingeras which featured nine solo presentations of women artists working at the extreme edges of feminist practice: «As a woman born in 1970 raised by a tribe of feminist aunts, I find it tremendously exhilarating to see the women artists in Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics included in the context of an art fair.»

The project's title refers to the 2009 lecture of the same name by Gloria Wekker, renowned Surinamese - Dutch scholar with an established reputation within the transnational and Black European feminist discourse.

Surprisingly, or perhaps not for feminist scholars, women's bodies continued to be used by the new Islamic regime as a focal point to distinguish themselves politically and ideologically from their predecessors.