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Stealing Lot’s wife and daughters from the Bible: a response to Rozmarin’s "Staying Alive"

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/10/2016
<mark>Journal</mark>Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Issue number4
Volume17
Number of pages8
Pages (from-to)254-261
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This article is a response to Rozmarin’s re-reading of the biblical story of Lot’s wife in her article “Staying Alive” (this issue). I begin by filling out the intellectual background to and rationale for Rozmarin’s project, which is to re-interpret this story as offering an alternative to the Western cultural law of matricide. I consider some further alternative meanings contained in the figures of Lot’s wife and daughters inspired by but not wholly in agreement with Rozmarin. I conclude by returning to broader questions about the feminist project of stealing female figures from texts of the patriarchal tradition.

Bibliographic note

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Gender and Sexuality on 30/11/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15240657.2016.1236541