Bodies, Lives, Voices Gender in Theology [Hardcover]

This work lies at the critical juncture of feminism and religious studies and participates in the vibrant tradition of the feminist anthology. It is part of a broad feminist discourse that continues to grow less monolithic and more varied in material, method and style each year. The papers are divided into three main sections: the representation of women in sacred texts and theologies, the fundamental need to recover the heritage of women and to return to women their history, and the coming together of canonical texts with contemporary feminist theory in order to address philosophical and theological problems.

IntroductionKathleen O'Grady, Ann Gilroy and Janette Gray
Part I  Bodies
1. Boundaries and Knowledge: Feminist Ethics in Search of Sure FoundationsLinda Hogan
2. Dympna Revisited: Thinking about the Sexual Abuse of ChildrenAnn Loades
3. Women Theologians and the HolocaustMargie Tolstoy
Part II  Lives
4. Disrupting the Sacred: Religion and Gender in the CityGrace M. Jantzen
5. Petronilla De Chemill?, Mulier FortisBerenice Kerr
6. Rebellious Women: Images of Women in the Protest Literature of Tamil Christian DalitsLakshmi Holmstr?m
7. The Woman's Lot in EstherDiana Lipton
Part III  Voices
8. Feeling and Reasons: Feminist Notes on the 1821-22 Debate between Hegel and SchleiermacherEsther Reed
9. The Divine Masquerade: A Psychoanalytic Theory about the Play of Gender in ReligionNaomi R. Goldenberg
10. 'Abjection & The Most Propitious Place for Communication': Celebrating the Death of the Unitary SubjectPamela Sue Anderson
11. What's God Got to Do with It?Morny Joy
12. PostscriptJanet Martin Soskice
Index

Janette Grayis Principal of Jesuit Theological College, Parkville, Australia.
Kathleen O'Gradyis Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Canada.
Ann L. Gillcu