Download or read book If God is male then the male is God PULP FICTIONS No 3 written by Karin van Marle and published by Pretoria University Law Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God is male then the male is God - PULP FICTIONS No.3 Edited by Karin van Marle 2007 ISSN: 1992-5174 Pages: 17 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available About the publication God sometimes you just don’t come through. God sometimes you just don’t come through. Do you need a woman to look after you. God sometimes you just don’t come through ... Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall. Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky. (Tori Amos, ‘God’ Under the pink (1994)) In this edition of Pulp fiction(s) the contentious issues of ‘Women and the gender of God’ and ‘Women and religion’ are discussed by two prominent theologians, Frances Klopper (Unisa) and Dirk Human (UP). Klopper and Human presented their views earlier this year at a Gender Forum of the University of Pretoria Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. Klopper exposes the pervasive maleness of Christianity resulting from fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible and from male imagery and symbols. Feminist biblical/theological scholars, like herself, aim to deconstruct biblical texts and images to disclose multiple possibilities of meaning and representation. Human describes the ‘broken reality’ reflected by many religions in which women are invisible, inferior and subordinate. Focusing primarily on the Jewish and Christian traditions as portrayed by the two creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2 he argues for ‘a balanced gender interpretation.’ In light of the continuing sexual violence and discrimination against women these perspectives urges us to reconsider women’s position in society. In the face of constitutional protection of equality, women’s rights and other laws protecting women, women still live in what Human calls ‘broken realities’. Patriarchy as a system of oppression is as forceful in private and public lives as ever. Pulp fiction(s) as a series interested in all issues regarding the tensions and transformations of societies, particularly postapartheid society, gladly creates space for the discourse on women, religion and the gender of God to continue. About the Author: Karin van Marle is a Professor at the Department of Legal History, Comparitive Law and Jurisprudence, at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.
Download or read book If God is male then the male is God PULP FICTIONS No 3 written by Karin van Marle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God is male then the male is God - PULP FICTIONS No.3Edited by Karin van Marle2007ISSN: 1992-5174Pages: 17Print version: AvailableElectronic version: Free PDF available.
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Download or read book Nahum written by Julia M. O'Brien and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its wanton celebration of violence, the book of Nahum poses ethical challenges to the modern reader. O'Brien offers the first full-scale engagement with this dimension of the book, exploring the ways in which the artfulness of its poetry serves the book's violent ideology, highlighting how its rhetoric attempts to render the Other fit for annihilation. She then reads from feminist, intertextual and deconstructionist angles and uncovers the destabilizing function of the book's aesthetics. Finally, she demonstrates how mining Nahum's ambiguities and tensions can contribute to an ethical response to its violence.
Download or read book Masculinity in Lesbian Pulp Fiction written by Paul Thompson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of the era in which they were written. The key issue of these novels is couplehood as much as sexuality, and the instability of masculinity leads to the instability of the couple. Thompson coins the term “heteroemulative” to describe the struggle that both heterosexual and homosexual couples have in conforming to heteronormativity. As several of these novels have been republished and remain in print, they have taken on a new relevance to issues of sexuality and gender in the twentyfirst century, and this study will attract readers within that area of interest. A valuable read for sociologists studying gender roles, and social historians of the cold war period in the United States. It is suitable for readers of all academic levels, from undergraduate, through postgraduate, to scholars and researchers, but also for a general readership.
Download or read book Men Like Gods written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Like Gods (1923) is a novel, referred to by the author as a "scientific fantasy", by English writer H. G. Wells. It features a utopia located in a parallel universe. Men Like Gods is set in the summer of 1921. Its protagonist is Mr. Barnstaple (his first name is either Alfred or William), a journalist working in London and living in Sydenham. He has grown dispirited at a newspaper called The Liberal and resolves to take a holiday. Taking leave of his wife and family, his plans are disrupted when his and two other automobiles are accidentally transported with their passengers into "another world," which the "Earthlings" call Utopia. A sort of advanced Earth, Utopia is some three thousand years ahead of humanity in its development. For the 200,000,000 Utopians who inhabit this world, the "Days of Confusion" are a distant period studied in history books, but their past resembles humanity's in its essentials, differing only in incidental details: their Christ, for example, died on the wheel, not on the cross. Utopia lacks any world government and functions as a successfully realised anarchy. "Our education is our government," a Utopian named Lion says. Sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes. Life in Utopia is governed by "the Five Principles of Liberty", which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion (allowing criticism). Men Like Gods is divided into three books. Details of life in Utopia are given in Books I and III. In Book II, the Earthlings are quarantined on a rocky crag after infections they have brought cause a brief epidemic in Utopia. There they begin to plot the conquest of Utopia, despite Mr. Barnstaple's protests. He betrays them when his fellows try to take two Utopians hostage, forcing Mr. Barnstaple to escape execution for treason by fleeing perilously. In Book III, Mr. Barnstaple longs to stay, but when he asks how he can best serve Utopia, he is told that he can do this "by returning to your own world". Regretfully he accepts and ends his month-long stay in Utopia. But he brings with him back to Earth a renewed determination to contribute to the effort to make a terrestrial Utopia: "He belonged now soul and body to the Revolution, to the Great Revolution that is afoot on Earth; that marches and will never desist nor rest again until old Earth is one city and Utopia set up therein. He knew clearly that this Revolution is life, and that all other living is a trafficking of life with death." Contemporary reviews of the novel were largely positive, though some found the story weakly plotted. As is often the case in his later fiction, Wells's utopian enthusiasm exceeded his interest in scientific romance or fantasy (his own terms for what is now called science fiction). The novel was yet another vehicle for Wells to propagate ideas of a possible better future society, also attempted in several other works, notably in A Modern Utopia (1905). Men Like Gods and other novels like it provoked Aldous Huxley to write Brave New World (1932), a parody and critique of Wellsian utopian ideas. Wells himself later commented on the novel: "It did not horrify or frighten, was not much of a success, and by that time, I had tired of talking in playful parables to a world engaged in destroying itself." (wikipedia.org)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Perthensis Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts Sciences Literature c Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time s Fool written by A. Clare Brandabur and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time’s Fool: Essays in Context is a collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from Gilgamesh to James Joyce – and beyond: to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others. Time’s Fool is a memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, who walked away from a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Illinois to embark on a career of teaching in Middle Eastern universities in Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, occupied Palestine, Cyprus, Ankara, and finally Istanbul, where she taught for the last decade and a half of her life. Had Clare stayed with a career at a “Research I” university in the United States, her scholarship would have been far less rich and free-wheeling – more narrow, concentrated, and specialized – and she would not have been able to help and inspire her graduate and undergraduate students from the Near East and, especially during her last five or six years at Fatih University, from around the world. The essays are organized into five main groups, from “Gender and Family Relations” and “Ecocriticism,” to “Colonialism and Post-Colonialism,” “Colonialism and Ireland,” and “Colonialism, Palestine, Genocide”; and a final ‘catch-all’ section of “Miscellaneous Essays” that includes Gilgamesh, T.E. Lawrence, Yaşar Kemal, Graham Green, and modern theory. There are also sub-categories that transcend the six sections, such as Arab Literature, Catholicism, Women’s Studies, and Mythology – something for everyone, in short. Clare’s essays give a sense of her breadth of scholarship and her very rich play of mind, but the real monument to her life’s work is in the hearts and minds of the students from around the world whom she influenced.
Download or read book The Son of God written by Rolf A. F. Witzsche and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unity of the sexes, as a divine design, is a difficult subject in theology, but not so as a basic concept when one peels away superimposed fiction that complicates the issue. But one of the hardest concept in theology is the virgin birth concept that actually breaks the unity of God and man, as it is told in the gospels. It conjures up a super hero, the personal son of God, who by virtue of his special status is endowed which special powers, with which he illustrates to society divine capabilities that a common humanity lacks by its low state as underlings, and may at best grovel for, praying for special favors. What a trip! Does this outcome qualify as an expression of divine Love? It makes a mockery of it, doesn't it? Fortunately, the gospels are but fiction themselves, to a large extend, written two centuries after the fact, so that in the wake of two centuries of persecution nothing survived in written documents that the gospels could be created from. None such documents are known to exist. Since the gospels are essentially historic fiction, except for aspects that were retained in the healing practice in Christianity supported by stories retold of what Jesus had said or might have said, one is justified in creating new historic fiction about the life and work of Jesus, based on the most leading-edge scientific perceptions that have been demonstrated in healing by the leading pioneers in the field. This opens the stage to challenge the doctrines of the virgin birth of the personal Sun of God. When one goes back to the basics, that humanity is one, because God is One, a completely different potential unfolds for a mother who is a virgin to bear a child that was conceived in an intense environment of universal love with a type of sexual dimension that eventually leads to the insemination of a woman without penetration, but along the line of established biological processes, extremely rare as this may be, so that a special miracle is not actually required for a virgin to conceive. If this had happened in Jesus' case, it would change the identity of the child born. It would render the child a human being born in a highly advanced environment of universal love, an environment that would match the nature and fullness of God's creation. Such a child would qualify for the term, son of God, the outcome of universal Love that defines God, reflected in love, evident in this case in the mother's sexual relationships. The alternate story of Jesus in this book, therefore begins with the case of the woman who becomes the mother of Jesus. For this reason, the story in this book is qualified for the Sex and Sacrament Project. In the resulting case, the child would stand tall as a man, built upon the highest human concept that anyone can stand on, which is universal Love expressed in love to the fullest extent. No other qualification would set the child apart, than the background in universal love in which he is born as a child of God indeed. Having grown up in this environment, the child Jesus would be intensely inspired to explore what it means to be the son of God. Searching the world for answers, the needed answers would invariably unfold. As such, he becomes an exemplar for the world of what every human being is, and is ultimately capable of for the healing of humanity. The story in this book, of a potential alternate history of Christ Jesus, was originally published as an eight-part video exploration. The text of the transcripts have been adapted for this book, and somewhat expanded to include advanced perceptions that came to light since the videos were produced. see: Civilization at http: //www.ice-age-ahead-iaa.ca
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Download or read book Faulkner s Hollywood Novels written by Ben Robbins and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the influence of Faulkner’s screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner’s time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an intriguing interlude in the career of one of America’s greatest novelists. Consequently, it has not received the wide-ranging critical examination it deserves. In Faulkner’s Hollywood Novels, Ben Robbins provides an overdue thematic analysis by systematically tracing a dialogue of influence between Faulkner’s literary fiction and screenwriting over a period of two decades. Among numerous insights, Robbins’s work sheds valuable new light on Faulkner’s treatment of female characters, both in his novels and in the films to which he contributed. Drawing on extensive archival research, Robbins finds that Hollywood genre conventions and archetypes significantly influenced and reshaped Faulkner’s craft after his involvement in the studio system. His work in the film industry also produced a deep exploration of the gendered dynamics of collaborative labor, genre formulae, and cultural hierarchies that materialized in both his Hollywood screenplays and his experimental fiction.
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