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UNSAFE SEX: FEMINISM, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE SONG OF SONGS

In: Biblical Interpretation
Authors:
Virginia Burrus
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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2003
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How should the Song of Songs be read? As that rarest of biblical texts, one that gives voice to female desire in the context of a sexual relationship characterized by equality and mutuality rather than domination and submission? Or as yet another vehicle for male pornographic fantasy and sexual aggression? Attempting to shift the (dualistic) terms of this burgeoning debate on the Song, this article explicitly situates itself at the intersection of feminist and queer theories, focusing especially on s/m eroticism as a site where these theories forcefully collide and delicately collude, and arguing that feminist and queer politics can ill-afford to exclude each other.

Title:
UNSAFE SEX: FEMINISM, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE SONG OF SONGS
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15685150360495561
Language:
English
Pages:
24–52
In:
Biblical Interpretation
In:
Volume 11: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5152
Print ISSN:
0927-2569
Subjects:
Biblical Interpretations, Biblical Studies, General, Religious Studies, Biblical Theology, Theology and World Christianity

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