Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible Sheri Bauman Baby X grows up without

Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it

Craig Calhoun

Since its publication in 2008

and admirably takes the reader from initial ideas through to additional readings which explore the core issues in greater depth

Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible Sheri Bauman Baby X grows up withoutFathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible's grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family