@article{dd862d57-5494-4dc6-a035-5304a7d1d95b,
  abstract     = {{This article examines how three women from the Hebrew Bible (Jezebel, Delilah, and Eve) are framed in material that relates to Christian anti-feminist and manosphere discourse: a sermon published online by US pastor Mark Driscoll, two videos on the YouTube channels God for Purpose and Manosphere Highlights Daily, and Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson’s book We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine. The study applies qualitative content analysis, looking for broader patterns and themes, and utilizes Sara Ahmed’s notion of stickiness to examine which affects stick to the three biblical women in the discourses. The biblical women are framed as highly sexualized, deceitful, and as posing a threat towards individual men and the gendered order, making them sticky symbols of men’s shame, paranoia, anxiety, and fear. In addition, the literary characters are assumed to disclose inner qualities of real-life contemporary women and are therefore, through affective politics, supposed to generate real political implications. The framing of the biblical women as well as the implications of the biblical name-calling of women today, are criticized by utilizing feminist biblical scholarship, challenging patriarchal biblical reception history as well as disrupting affective economies.}},
  author       = {{Liljefors, Hanna}},
  issn         = {{1832-3391}},
  keywords     = {{manosphere discourse; Christian anti-feminism; biblical reception criticism; stickiness; Jordan B. Peterson; Mark A. Driscoll; Jezebel spirit; Jezebel; Delilah; Eve}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{1--25}},
  series       = {{Bible and Critical Theory}},
  title        = {{Biblical Name-Calling in Christian Anti-Feminist and Manosphere Discourse : Jezebel, Delilah, and Eve as Sticky Symbols of Hot Women Burning Men}},
  url          = {{https://bibleandcriticaltheory.com/vol-22-no-1-2026-hanna-liljefors/}},
  volume       = {{22}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}