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3 - “Biblical Birthright” and the #MeToo Movement

Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship on How to Read Cultural Texts of Terror

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

Karen V. Guth
Affiliation:
College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
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Summary

On September 25, 2018, actor Bill Cosby, once known as “America’s Dad,” was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand.1 Although the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has since overturned his conviction, citing a due process violation, the original trial followed decades of allegations from more than sixty women that Cosby had sexually assaulted them, often with use of methaqualone – acts that Cosby himself had admitted in a previous civil case.2 But Cosby’s fall from grace is only one recent example of “Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things.”3

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The Ethics of Tainted Legacies
Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts
, pp. 88 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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