Resisting rape culture : the Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong sex workers /
Resisting Rape Culture tackles controversial and harrowing rape myths prevalent in rape culture: namely that sex workers do not get raped, and that they are deserving victims of sexual violence. Commonly, sociocultural discourses depict sex workers as morally deficient and promiscuous, having sex wi...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : 2021 |
| Series: | Rape culture, religion and the Bible
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Bible
> Genesis, XXXVIII
> Criticism, interpretation, etc.
> China
> Hong Kong
> Criticism, interpretation, etc.
> China
> Hong Kong.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Purpose of the book
- 1.2 Standpoint theory
- 1.3 The three biblical stories and the reading exercises
- 1.4 Synopsis
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Rape culture and sex work in Hong Kong
- 2.1 Rape laws in Hong Kong
- 2.2 Rape statistics in Hong Kong
- 2.3 Rape culture and resistance in Hong Kong
- 2.4 Sex work in Hong Kong
- 2.4.1 General background information about sex workers
- 2.4.2 Advocacy for sex workers in Hong Kong
- 2.4.3 Hong Kong laws governing sex work
- 2.4.4 Consequences of the laws regulating sex work
- 2.4.5 Section summary
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Sex workers read Tamar
- 3.1 The story in Genesis 38
- 3.2 Hong Kong Christian interpretations
- 3.2.1 Tamar is to return home in Gen 38:11
- 3.2.2 Tamar's actions in 38:14 and her conception in 38:18
- 3.2.3 Hirah's search for the qdsh in Gen 38:20-23
- 3.2.4 Judah sentences Tamar to death in Gen 38:24-25
- 3.2.5 General summary of Hong Kong Christian interpretations
- 3.3 The sex workers' standpoint
- 3.3.1 Gen 38:9 is a rape text
- 3.3.2 Gen 38:14 is the climax of the story
- 3.3.2.1 What Tamar sees
- 3.3.2.2 What Tamar does to seduce Judah
- 3.3.3 Hirah's use of qdsh
- 3.3.3.1 qdsh means an outsider
- 3.3.3.2 Tamar is neither a qdsh nor a prostitute
- 3.4 Chapter summary
- Notes
- Chapter 4 Sex workers read the story of the two prostitutes and King Solomon
- 4.1 The story of the two prostitutes and King Solomon
- 4.2 Hong Kong Christian interpretations
- 4.2.1 Purpose of the story
- 4.2.2 Interpretations concerning the prostitutes
- 4.3 Sex workers' standpoints
- 4.3.1 Sympathy for the two prostitutes
- 4.3.2 Violence disguised as wisdom
- 4.3.3 The biblical author marginalises the prostitutes and their children
- 4.4 Chapter summary
- Notes
- Chapter 5 Sex workers read Gomer and the female prostitution figures in Hosea 1-3
- 5.1 Gomer and the female prostitution figures in Hosea 1-3
- 5.2 Hong Kong Christian interpretations
- 5.2.1 Prostitute, wife and mother
- 5.2.2 Justifications for punishment
- 5.3 Sex workers' standpoints
- 5.3.1 The problem of Hosea/YHWH condoning rape culture
- 5.3.2 The victimization of Gomer and the female prostitution figures
- 5.3.3 The problem of the female prostitution metaphors
- 5.4 Chapter summary
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Summary and conclusion
- Selected bibliography
- Subjects and authors index
- Biblical texts index