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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959146303321

Titolo

Beyond Slavery : Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies / / edited by B. Brooten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612993039

9781282993037

1282993038

9780230113893

0230113893

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, , 2945-6983

Altri autori (Persone)

BrootenBernadette J

HazeltonJacqueline L

Disciplina

306.3/62082

Soggetti

Religion - History

Psychology and religion

Religion and sociology

History of Religion

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Sociology of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Bernadette J. Brooten -- ; PART I: A prayer: Prayer for my daughter (poem) / Nancy Rawles -- ; PART II: Overcoming slavery's legacies in the United States: The paradox of silence and display: sexual violation of enslaved women, and contemporary contradictions in Black female sexuality / Dorothy Roberts -- From Mammy to welfare queen: images of Black women in public-policy formation / Emilie M. Townes -- From plantations to prisons: African American women prisoners in the United States / Ellen Barry -- ; PART III: Overcoming slavery's legacies in religious law: The purchase of His money: slavery and the ethics of Jewish marriage / Gail Labovitz -- Slavery and sexual ethics in Islam / Kecia Ali -- ; PART IV: Ancient origins of the problems: "She shall ot go free as male slaves do": seveloping views about slavery



and gender in the laws of the Hebrew Bible / David P. Wright -- Early Christianity, slavery, and women's bodies / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Gender, slavery, and technology: the shaping of the early Christian moral imagination / Sheila Briggs -- ; PART V: Why sexual ethics needs history: "As if she were his wife": slavery and sexual ethics in late Medieval Spain / Debra Blumenthal -- Love, sex, slavery, and Sally Hemings / Mia Bay -- Breaking the silence: sexual hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond / Catherine Clinton -- ; PART VI: Should the Bible form the basis of public policy: The Bible, slavery, and the problem of authority / Sylvester A. Johnson -- The "purity of the white woman, not the purity of the Negro woman": the contemporary legacies of historical laws against interracial marriage / Fay Botham -- ; PART VII: The stories we tell: Mammy's daughters; or, the DNA of a feminist sexual ethics / Frances Smith Foster -- ; PART VIII: Restorative justice: Enslaved Black women: a theology of justice and reparations / Dwight N. Hopkins -- ; PART IX: ; A mediation: A visit from the old mistress (poem) / Florence Ladd -- Epilogue / Mende Nazer, with Bernadette J. Brooten.

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy.