July 15, 2021

2. Misogyny, Bible and Environmental Violence - Charlotte Trombin

45 minutes

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of gendered and sexual violence throughout.

This episode is hosted by Katherine Gwyther and Simeon Whiting. In this episode, we discuss Charlotte's recent paper about misogyny, the Hebrew Bible, and environment. Our resulting conversation covers everything from the texts themselves, the connections between women and land, and what this means for our current world and climate crisis.

A bibliography of some of the material discussed can be found here:

Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum, 1990.

Anshelm, Jonas, and Martin Hultman. ‘A Green Fatwā? Climate Change as a Threat to the Masculinity of Industrial Modernity’. International Journal for Masculinity Studies 9, no. 2 (2014): 84–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2014.908627.

Boonprasat Lewis, Nantawan, and Marie M. Fortune, eds. Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence. New York, USA: Routledge, 2012.

Caputi, Jane. Call Your ‘Mutha’: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene. New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2020

Connell, R. W., and James W. Messerschmidt. ‘Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept’. Gender and Society 19, no. 6 (2005): 829–59

Erin Marie Konsmo and A.M. Kahealani Pacheco. ‘Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence’. A Partnership of Women’s Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network, 2016. http://landbodydefense.org/uploads/files/VLVBReportToolkit2016.pdf.

Gaard, Greta. ‘Ecofeminism and Native American Cultures: Pushing the Limits of Cultural Imperialism?’ In Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, 295–314. Philadelphia, USA: Temple University Press, 1993.

Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur. ‘Rapes of Earth and Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck, Ecofeminism and the Metaphor of Rape’. Feminist Theology 18, no. 2 (2010): 206–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0966735009348665.

Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Williams, Delores. ‘Sin, Nature, and Black Women’s Bodies’. In Ecofeminism and the Sacred, edited by Carol J. Adams, 24–29. New York, USA: Continuum, 1993.

Winter, David G., and Otto Rank. ‘Circulating Metaphors of Sexuality, Aggression, and Power: Otto Rank’s Analysis of “Conquering Cities and ‘Conquering’ Women”’. Political Psychology 31, no. 1 (2010): 1–19.

Yee, Gale A. Poor Banished Children of Eve: Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, USA: Fortress Press, 2003.

To contact our guest, you can email [email protected], find her on Twitter @c_trombin or visit her website ctrombin.wordpress.com where readers can have a look at some of her papers and find links to her publications.

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