Shadow Feminism as Salvation: Perpetua and Queer Negativity
According to Julian Forth, feminist queer negativity helps us rethink salvation in the martyrdom of Perpetua.
According to Julian Forth, feminist queer negativity helps us rethink salvation in the martyrdom of Perpetua.
The early Christians were often at a loss as to how they were going to survive the Roman Empire. Indeed, many didn’t. The first three centuries of Christianity produced martyr after bloody martyr–pulled apart limb by severed limb, cast in iron cows that were heated by fire, torn apart by lions, tigers and bears, they […]
After about 38 laborious years this book has finally come out. (Okay, that was a slight bit of hyperbole, but I wrote my chapter back in 2008. Many thanks to whichever one of you contributors slowed us down–was that you, Steve?) Nevertheless, it looks to be a promising book that provides a constructive grammatical framework for what has […]