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Tables of Contents for Battered Love
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
EDITOR'S FOREWORD
ix
4
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xiii
INTRODUCTION: A Metaphor's Fatal Attraction
1
11
1 "You Have the Forehead of a Whore" The Rhetoric of a Metaphor
12
23
Biblical Metaphors as Representations of Hebrew Reality
15
3
Metaphors of Power and Punishment
18
5
How Metaphors Work
23
2
Marriage as a Controlling Metaphor
25
2
Male Prestige in the Marriage Metaphor
27
3
Marriage, Sexuality, and the Female Body
30
3
Conclusion
33
2
2 "Is She Not My Wife?" Prophets, Audiences, and Expectations
35
33
Female Powerlessness, Male Voyeurism
40
4
The Feminization of Cities
44
1
"Is She Not My Wife?" Rhetoric and Audience in Hosea
45
7
"You Have the Forehead of a Whore" Rhetoric and Audience in Jeremiah
52
6
"The Lady Is a Tramp": Rhetoric and Audience in Ezekiel
58
6
Conclusion
64
4
3 "Am I Not Her Husband?" The Unpredictable and Unimaginable God
68
16
God, Gendering, and Power
78
2
Monotheism
80
4
4 "Yet I Will Remember My Covenant with You" The World of Romance and Rape
84
37
Till Death Do Us Part
88
2
The Vulnerable Male
90
2
"I Will Seduce You": Romance Rhetoric in Hosea
92
1
"I Have Loved You with an Everlasting Love" Romance Rhetoric in Jeremiah
93
3
"My Fair Lady": Romance Rhetoric in Ezekiel
96
2
Resisting Romance and Rape Rhetoric
98
6
A Metaphor Gone Awry
104
2
Metaphors Hurt
106
4
Metaphors as Pointing Fingers
110
3
A Metaphor of Brokenheartedness
113
8
NOTES
121
28
INDEX
149