See what you made me do - Intimate Partner Violence and the Bible
In this episode, Caz and Em discuss understandings of intimate partner violence and coercive control, both in the Bible and contemporary culture. They investigate the “prophetic marriage metaphor” that appears in the book of Hosea, where the prophet Hosea uses his own unhappy marriage to reflect on God’s troubled relationship with Israel. Caz and Em explore this metaphor to uncover how it evokes many of the same tactics used by contemporary perpetrators of coercive control.
Resources for this episode
Emily Colgan, ‘Let Him Romance You: Rape Culture and Gender Violence in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Literature’, in Caroline Blyth, Emily J. Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards (eds.), Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Christian Perspectives (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 9-26.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72685-4_2
Crime Analyst podcast, hosted by Laura Richards
https://www.crime-analyst.com/
Linda Day, “Teaching the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor Texts,” Teaching Theology and Religion 2, no. 3 (1999): 173–179. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9647.00059
The Duluth Model Power and Control Wheel https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/
Carole R. Fontaine, ‘A Response to “Hosea”’, in Athalya Brenner (ed.), Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 60-69.
Jane Gilmore, Fixed It (Viking, 2019).
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/fixed-it-9780143795506
Jane Gilmore, Fixed It website.
https://janegilmore.com/category/fixedit/
Naomi Graetz, ‘God Is to Israel as Husband Is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering of Hosea's Wife’, in Athalya Brenner (ed.), A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 126-45.
Sharon Hayes and Samantha Jeffries, Romantic Terrorism: An Auto-Ethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival (Palgrave Pivot, 2015).
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137468499
Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse (Black Inc., 2019) https://www.jesshill.net/
Laura Richards, “Breaking down coercive control.”
https://twitter.com/laurarichards99/status/1502356993608073218
Laura Richards website
https://www.laurarichards.co.uk/
Michael Salter, ‘Real Men Do Hit Women’, Meanjin Quarterly (Autumn 2016). Available online: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/real-men-do-hit-women/#3.
Small Town Dicks podcast, Season 2, Episodes 2 and 3, “If these walls could talk.”
https://www.smalltowndicks.com/episode/s2-e2-if-these-walls-could-talk-pt-1/
Evan Stark, Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Oxford University Press, 2007).
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/coercive-control-9780195384048?cc=nz&lang=en&
Samantha Taaka, Apriel Jolliffe Simpson & Devon Polaschek, “Coercive Control in Intimate Partner Violence in New Zealand. Future Safe Research Projects,” University of Waikato. https://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/508956/Sam-Poster-1.pdf
Renita J. Weems, ‘Gomer: Victim of Violence or Victim of Metaphor?’, Semeia 47 (1989), pp. 87-104
Wings, How to respond to victims of domestic violence.
Women’s Aid UK, “How Common is Domestic Abuse?”
Support Services
Shine (NZ) - https://www.2shine.org.nz/
Family Violence - It’s Not Okay (NZ) - https://www.areyouok.org.nz/
National Domestic Violence Hotline (USA) - https://www.thehotline.org/
Women’s Aid (UK) - https://www.womensaid.org.uk/
