Gender and Apocalyptic Desire

by Brasher,Brenda E.

• ISBN13: 9781904768852
• ISBN10: 1904768857
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In a time when struggles over the place of women are paralleled by struggles over Good versus Evil, this volume exposes the often-veiled links between these two systems of meaning. The essays collected here highlight the intertwining desires of gender stability and apocalyptic truth even as they show that these desires are often internally combustible, a clearing out of the old to make way for new forms. Contributors explore both collusion and collisions between feminist and apocalyptic thought, the various ways in which apocalyptic belief functions as bodily discipline and cultural practice, and finally, the means by which some currents of apocalyptic desire can enable women's equality.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii
Brenda E. Brasher
List of Contributors	ix
Introduction and Overview	xi
Brenda E. Brasher
Lee Quinby
Ms. Calculating the Apocalypse	1	(13)
Catherine Keller
The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism	14	(8)
Brenda E. Brasher
Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11	22	(20)
Carol Mason
Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and The End	42	(22)
Thomas L. Long
The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex	64	(12)
Tina Pippin
`The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God': The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson	76	(14)
Sharon Betcher
Making Space, Taking Space: The Dynamics of 1980s Peace Activist Women's Efforts to Reclaim and Transform the Public Arena	90	(15)
Ginger Hanks-Harwood
`Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over': The Eschatology of Fluids	105	(25)
Christy Cousino
Visions of Mary, Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions	130	(15)
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz
Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at `Heaven's Gate'	145	(20)
Robert Glenn Howard
Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium	165	(15)
Lee Quinby
Index	180