Feminist theology : a reader

by Ann Loades

Other authorsKaren Armstrong
Paper Book, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

BT83.55.F45 1990

Publication

London : Louisville, Ky. : SPCK ; W/JKP, 1990.

Description

Some feminist women search for the roots of feminism in the recent past; others write the past off. Too many assume that religious traditions have nothing to offer feminism, so even when religious belief has been central to the inspiration of some of the most powerful campaigners for the value and worth of women, the significance of that belief has been ignored. Mary Wollstonecraft argued for the 'rights' of women'; Josephine Butler fought against the devaluation of women expressed in the Contagious Diseases Acts; Dorothy L. Sayers had a powerful sense of the way women and men grace one another's lives in their work. They all drew on the Christian tradition of their own times, but this has rarely been given weight. These women have not been considered together, nor as theologians, as here in Ann Loades's new book. In their life time, each of them opened up some painful issues: abortion and its significance in our shared social lives, forms of coercion, especially the sexual abuse of children, and the importance of women's work. Their courage and generosity offer salutary challenges to our own times. Feminist Theology will be of interest to all those concerned with contemporary theological questions as well as to students of feminism and the analysis of gender, in sociology, politics and the humanities.… (more)

LCC

BT83.55.F45 1990

Original publication date

1990

Physical description

ix, 340 p.; 22 cm

ISBN

0664251293 / 9780664251291

Barcode

31342000098805

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