Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Gender and Sexuality
The Invisible Women: Number 30 and the Politics of Singleness in Africana Communities
A Womanist Midrash of Delilah: Don't Hate the Playa Hate the Game
The Song of Songs: Redeeming Gender Constructions in the Age of AIDS
Part 2: Agency and Advocacy
Race, Gender, and the Politics of “Sass” : Reading Mark 7:24-30 through a Womanist Lens of Intersectionality and Inter(con)textuality
Antitypes, Stereotypes, and Antetypes: Jezebel, The Sun Woman, and Contemporary Black Women
One More Time with Assata on My Mind: A Womanist Rereading of the Escape to Egypt (Matt 2:13-23) in Dialogue with an African American Woman Fugitive Narrative
“Battered Love” : Exposing Abuse in the Book of Job
Part 3: Foregrounding Women on the Margins
Black Collectors and Keepers of Tradition: Resources for a Womanist Biblical Ethic of (Re)Interpretation
Flowing from Breast to Breast: An Examination of Dis/placed Motherhood in African American and Indian Wet Nurses
“We Don’t Give Birth to Thugs” : Family Values, Respectability Politics, and Jephthah's Mother
Part 4: Illuminating Biblical Children/Childhood
Outrageous, Audacious, Courageous, Willful: Reading the Enslaved Girl of Acts 12
“Nobody’s Free until Everybody’s Free” : Exploring Gender and Class Injustice in a Story about Children (Luke 18:15-17)
“I Will Make Boys Their Princes” : A Womanist Reading of Children in the Book of Isaiah
Part 5: In Response
Miracles and Gifts: A Womanist Reading of John 14:12-14 and Ephesians 4:11-16
Looking Forward from the Horizon: A Response in Africana Sisterhood and Solidarity
Challenged and Changed
The Road We Are Traveling
Contributors
Index of Ancient Sources
Subject Index