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Dancing on the minefield :

This thesis presents a series of feminist counter-readings of the two women in Proverbs 1-9: Woman Wisdom and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman. It therefore seeks to both discern and challenge the traditional male scholarship's understandings of both women, and, more importantly, to read both as women rather than as stereotypes. Most readings of the text construe Woman Wisdom as a personification or a hypostasis, and the Strange-and-Foolish Woman as a stereotype or series of stereotypes of promiscuous and assertively sexual women. Few scholars focus on the significance of these representations of women as women. My feminist counter-reading methodology involves a triple hermeneutic-suspicion, resistance, rereading and representation. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 1999

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/268541
CreatorsWurst, Shirley J. J.
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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