Women's Bodies as Battlefield Christian Theology and the Global War on Women [Hardcover]

Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.

Introduction
1: Injuring: Bodies and Battlefields
2: Injuring: Women's Bodies in the War on Women
3: The History of Theologies of the Body: Sexism and Militarism
4: Looking Away: The Heroic Fiction of War
5: Looking Away: The Erotic Fiction of the War on Women
6: Just War: Authorizing the Injuries
7: Just War: Conducting the Injuries
8: Just Peace: Practice Without Embodiment
9: Just Peace: Bodies at the Center
10: Toward An Embodied Theology of Peace

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite sets out to address the ways in which Western models of war and peace affect the global War on Women. & the book is certainly an accessible read for people from a variety of social locations and interest levels & . This book is entirely rooted in culture, lived experience, historical understanding, and, above all, it offers a hopeful roadmap for praxis that will lead to a life-giving future for all. (Katie Deaver, Christian Feminism Today, eewc.com, March, 2016)

Reverend Thistlethwaite makes an important contribution to the current debate on the wars we are waging and how they effect violence against women. Her treatment of Christian notions of just war makes this book essential reading for those who are motivated by Jesus' words: 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, co-founder of The Carter Center

In this very important new book, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite argues that war and violence against women have some of the salÓ.