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The good news of the body : sexual theology and feminism /

This book examines the power to define sexuality. It asks whether women are even present in the many acts of religious/sexual intercourse that define and control, but rarely engage them. A number of authors reflect from varying perspectives on the status of women within patriarchal understandings of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Isherwood, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, ©2000.
Series:Studies in theology and sexuality ; 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sex and body politics: issues for feminist theology / Lisa Isherwood
  • Sex in the Catholic tradition / Rosemary Radford Reuther
  • "Refresh me with apples for I am faint with love" (Song of songs 2.5): Jewish feminism, mystical theology and the sexual imaginary
  • Are we making love yet? Theological and psychological perspectives on the role of gender identity in the experience of domination / Lallene J. Rector
  • Same difference? Power, equality and lesbian relating / Alison Webster
  • Human sexuality and the concept of the God/ess / Beverley Clack
  • A strange convergence? Popes and feminists on contraception / Adrain Thatcher
  • Erotic celibacy: claiming empowered space / Lisa Isherwood
  • Disruptive bodies: disability, embodiment and sexuality / Elizabeth Stuart
  • 'Canonized for love': pleasure an death in modernity / Grace M. Jantzen
  • Indecent exposures: excessive sex and the crisis of theological representation
  • Epilogue: safe sex, a feminist theological reflection.