TY - JOUR

T1 - Stealing Lot’s wife and daughters from the Bible

T2 - a response to Rozmarin’s "Staying Alive"

AU - Stone, Alison Laura

N1 - 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

PY - 2016/10/1

Y1 - 2016/10/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1080/15240657.2016.1236541

DO - 10.1080/15240657.2016.1236541

M3 - Journal article

VL - 17

SP - 254

EP - 261

JO - Studies in Gender and Sexuality

JF - Studies in Gender and Sexuality

SN - 1524-0657

IS - 4

ER -