 Essays from Academia
Edited by Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen
Can a person be feminist and Christian at the same time? Even though much feminist scholarship is positioned as antithetical to Christianity, the contributors to this volume answer with a resounding yes. The essays presented in this unique collection explore various intersections of feminism, feminist theory and practice, and Christian tradition as it is lived out in the lives of Christian academics. This volume is unique in its gathering of Christian perspectives from both Catholic and Protestant traditions and explores questions and issues that arise when people of faith encounter feminism in both public, private, and personal domains.
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"An impressive and stimulating array of essays...that tests and probes the fluid boundaries of Christian faith and feminist consciousness. The contributors to this powerful collection neither say nor sound 'the same,' but their voices all together rise in chorus to celebrate the vibrant possibility of being feminist and being Christian."--Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University
"This collection of essays deepens the relatively unexplored connection between feminism and Christianity in a variety of academic fields, including biblical studies, history, linguistics, literature, political science, and theology."--Priscilla Pope-Levison, Seattle Pacific University |
Acknowledgements * Introduction--Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen *
Christian Feminist or Feminist Christian: What’s Feminism Got to Do with Evangelical Christians?--Bettina Tate Pedersen * Silence and Feminine Morality: A Look at Performances of Gender in Two Theology Classrooms--Allyson Jule * Blessed Mother or Material Mom: Which Madonna Am I?--Linda Beail * In Search of Bodily Perspective: A Study of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray--Elizabeth Powell * Two Women Speaking “Woman”: The Strategic Essentialism of Luce Irigaray and Phoebe Palmer--Diane Leclerc * Speaking Out: Feminist Theology and Women’s Proclamation in the Wesleyan Tradition--Carol Blessing and Lisa Bernal Corley * Nascent Christian Feminism in Medieval and Early Modern Britain--Holly Faith Nelson * Biblical Literalism and Gender Stability: A Christian Response to Gender Performance Theory--Chris Noble * About the Authors
Allyson Jule is Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Glamorgan, Wales. Bettina Tate Pedersen is Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University.
224 pp. / 1-4039-7295-8 / $69.95 cl.
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