Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia

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A. Jule, B. Pedersen
Springer, Jun 10, 2006 - Social Science - 213 pages
Can a person be Christian and Feminist at the same time? In these extended essays, authors explore the various intersections of feminism, feminist theory and practice, and Christian tradition as it is lived out in the lives of Christian academics.
 

Contents

Being Feminist Being Christian
1
Christian Feminist or Feminist Christian Whats Feminism Got to Do with Evangelical Christians?
9
Silence as Femininity? A Look at Performances of Gender in Theology College Classrooms
35
Blessed Mother or Material Mom Which Madonna Am I?
59
In Search of Bodily Perspective A Study of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray
81
Two Women Speaking Woman The Strategic Essentialism of Luce Irigaray and Phoebe Palmer
110
Speaking Out Feminist Theology and Womens Proclamation in the Wesleyan Tradition
127
Nascent Christian Feminism in Medieval and EarlyModern Britain
157
Biblical Literalism and Gender Stability A Christian Response to Gender Performance Theory
181
About the Authors
205
Index
207
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ALLYSON JULÉ is Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.

BETTINA TATE PEDERSEN is Associate Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA.

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