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Description

1. x, 96 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Resisting Rape Culture tackles controversial and harrowing rape myths prevalent in rape culture: namely that sex workers do not get raped, and that they are deserving victims of sexual violence. Commonly, sociocultural discourses depict sex workers as morally deficient and promiscuous, having sex with multiple clients in exchange for payment. Consequently, they are often considered deserving of rape, sexual assault and other forms of abuse, or as people who should expect to receive such treatment. In a way, the Hebrew Bible contributes to such stigmatization and discrimination of sex workers, given first its authority and secondly its negative portrayals of prostitutes as outsiders. This cutting-edge book describes the rape culture in Hong Kong, focusing on how Hong Kong Christians interpret the Bible concerning prostitutes, and in turn how this affects the treatment of sex workers. Arguably when interpretations malign the prostitutes in the Bible, and do not critique how the Bible portrays these women, we promote the stigmatization of sex workers and, in doing so, normalize and trivialize sexual discrimination, abuse and violence, ultimately promoting rape culture"--

Series statement

1. Rape culture, religion and the bible

Subject

1. Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > China > Hong Kong
2. Rape in the Bible
3. Sex workers > China > Hong Kong
4. Sex workers
5. China > Hong Kong

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Rape culture and sex work in Hong Kong -- Sex workers read Tamar -- Sex workers read the story of the two prostitutes and King Solomon -- Ssx workers read Gomer and the female prostitution figures in Hosea 1-3 -- Summary and conclusion.

Call number

1. JFD 21-1726

Note

1. "Routledege Focus"--cover.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Author

1. Tan, Nancy Nam Hoon, author.

Title

1. Resisting rape culture : the Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong sex workers / Nancy Nam Hoon Tan.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Rape culture, religion and the bible

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9781000178630

LCCN

1. 2020015746

ISBN

1. 9780367353834 (hardback)
2. 0367353830 (hardback)
3. 9780367544980 (paperback)
4. 0367544989 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFD 21-1726