Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)
In her book\xa0Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature\xa0(Yale University Press, 2021), Meghan Henning illuminates how the bodies that populate hell in early Christian literature are punished after death in spaces that mirror real carceral spaces, effectually criminalizing those bodies on Earth. Contextualizing the apocalypses alongside ancient medical texts, inscriptions, philosophy, and patristic writings, this book demonstrates the ways that Christian depictions of hell intensified and preserved ancient notions of gender and bodily normativity that continue to inform Christian identity.\nMeghan R. Henning is associate professor of Christian origins at the University of Dayton.\nSchneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of\xa0Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism\xa0(Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies