Methods > Feminist Criticism

Gendered Language

• 'Femenino': Origen Ideológico de una Palabra - by Miguel Ángel Núñez, DavarLogos 1.1 (2002); abstract only

Theory

• Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: A Failure of Theoretical Nerve - by J.D.H. Amador, originally published as "Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics: A Failure of Theoretical Nerve," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66 (1998) 39–57
• Feminist Hermeneutics and Pentecostal Spirituality: The Creation Narratives of Genesis as a Paradigm - by Joseph Abraham, Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies 6 (2003) 3–21
• Is a liberating feminist exegesis possible without liberation theology? - by Hanna Stenström, lectio difficilior (1/2002)
• Metaphor in Feminist Biblical Interpretation: Theoretical Perspectives - by Claudia V. Camp, Semeia 61 (1993) 3–36
• Stepping In/Stepping Out: A Conversation between Ideological and Social Scientific Feminist Approaches to the Bible - by Alice A. Keefe, Journal of Religion & Society 1 (1999)

For studies of individual texts from feminist (and other) perspectives, see the listings for individual texts.

Book Reviews

• Cheney, Emily, She Can Read: Feminist Reading Strategies for Biblical Narrative (Trinity, 1996) - reviewed by Corinne Crammer, Anglican Theological Review (Winter 1998)
• Schaberg, Jane, Esther Fuchs, and Alice Bach, eds., On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Continuum, 2003) - reviewed by Lillian Klein-Abensohn, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation (Orbis, 2001) - reviewed by Amy Amonnette, Currents in Theology and Mission (February 2003)
• Stichele, Caroline Vander and Todd Penner, eds., Her Master's Tools?: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (SBL/Brill, 2005) - reviewed by Mary Coloe, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Van Dijk-Hemmes, Fokkelien, The Double Voice of Her Desire (ed. Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Freda Dröes; trans. David E. Orton; Deo, 2003) - reviewed by Athalya Brenner, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)