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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826148903321

Titolo

The good news of the body : sexual theology and feminism / / edited by Lisa Isherwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-283-20253-0

9786613202536

1-4411-0848-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Studies in theology and sexuality ; ; 5

Disciplina

241.6/6

Soggetti

Feminist theology

Feminist spirituality

Sex - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Contributors; Introduction; Foreplay: Stirrings Around the Hetero- patriarchal Narrative of out Time of our Time; PART I WOMEN, SEX AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS; PART II SEXUAL THEOLOGY AND WOMEN'S POWER; PART III CELIBACY AND CONTRACEPTION; PART IV REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDGES; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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 sexuality. They take seriously the bodies of women as sites of resistance to patriarchy, in the pain of those bodies, their fecundity and their capacity for erotic revolution. For this book also explores ways to rebel!