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  • 13 - Women and War Commemoration

  • from Part IV - Deborah: Mother of a Voluntary Nation
  • Jacob L. Wright, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
    Published online:
    27 July 2020
    Print publication:
    23 July 2020, pp 210-221
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    This fourth chapter of Part IV turns to the gender of wartime contributions. A common cultural construction draws a sharp distinction between men who leave their families to go to fight and women who wait for their men to return. As demonstrated in this chapter, the Song of Deborah and the prose account that precedes it do not partake in the gender polarity that informs the cultural productions of so many societies, modern and ancient. By subverting the status quo and repudiating the conventions of male heroism, they do much the opposite. In addition, the investigation reveals that women, although rarely having opportunities to take up arms in defense of their communities, played a central role in war commemoration as “memory makers.”