Contested Masculinities

Conventional interpretations of biblical texts tend to overlook how the text and its interpretation is gendered as a white male enterprise. This book exposes centrist readings that underwrite expressions of masculinity that are singular and instead offers a playful reading that amplifies transgressive possibilities for masculine expression.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Reading Bodies, Reading Scripture in a Post-Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 2: Male Bodiliness and Performance: Developing a Gender-Critical Optic

Chapter 3: Inscribing Relationships of Power: Developing a Postcolonial Optic

Chapter 4: Reading Bodies, Ancient and Contemporary

Chapter 5: Interpretational Coordinates: Historical Markers for Reading 1 Thessalonians

Chapter 6: A Gender-Critical, Postcolonial Reading of 1 Thessalonians

Chapter 7: Masculinity, Biblical Texts and the Metaphors by which We Live

Epilogue

Bibliography

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