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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959794303321

Autore

Trothen Tracy J (Tracy Joan), <1963->

Titolo

Linking sexuality & gender : naming violence against women in the United Church of Canada / / Tracy J. Trothen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003

ISBN

9786610925759

9781280925757

1280925752

9780889205796

0889205795

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Studies in women and religion ; ; 9

Disciplina

261.8/3315/082

Soggetti

Women - Crimes against - Religious aspects - United Church of Canada

Violence - Religious aspects - United Church of Canada

Sex - Religious aspects - United Church of Canada

Sex role - Religious aspects - United Church of Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. 149-155.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; I: Methodology; II: The Development of The United Church of Canada's Approach to Human Sexuality; III: The Development of The United Church of Canada's Approach to Women's Roles and the Family; IV: Case Study: In God's Image...Male and Female; V: Case Study: Gift, Dilemma and Promise; VI: Case Study: The Task Force on the Changing Roles of Women and Men in Church and Society; VII: Taking Stock: A Contextual, Retrospective Look at Sexuality, Gender, Violence, and The United Church of Canada; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Why did it take so long for the United Church of Canada to respond to violence against women?     Tracy J. Trothen looks at the United Church as a uniquely Canadian institution, and explores how it has approached



gender and sexuality issues. She argues that how the Church deals with these issues influences its ability to name violence against women.     In examining the Church's early approaches to gender and sexuality, Tracy J. Trothen discovered that the United Church had tended to see certain structures or roles as sacred and others as demonic. For example, while sex outside m