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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822460003321

Autore

McClendon John H.

Titolo

Philosophy of religion and the African American experience : conversations with my Christian friends / / by John H. McClendon III ; with the assistance of Brittany L. O'Neal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill : , : Rodopi, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-33221-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 pages)

Collana

African American Philosophy, , 0929-8436 ; ; Volume 300

Disciplina

230.089/96073

Soggetti

Christian philosophy

Black theology

African American philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conversation on African Americans and Christianity -- Can a Philosopher Spoil a Good Christian? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience -- Philosophy of Religion: The Social Basis of Theology and the Secular Character of Philosophy -- Howard Thurman as Historical Investigator: On Jesus—The Man—As Jew and the Meaning of Christianity -- James Cone and The Old Testament as History Book: A Philosophical Assessment -- Biblical Scripture is a History Book: An African American Tradition -- Constructing Noah as Black: A Contemporary Myth about ‘Historical’ Origins of a Biblical Character -- William R. Jones and Philosophical Theology: Transgressing and Transforming Conventional Boundaries of Black Liberation Theology -- Divine Racism and the Matter of Internal Criticism: Theology, Theodicy, and Ideology -- Conclusion: Social Outlook and Sacred Text.

Sommario/riassunto

Most white philosophers of religion generally presume that philosophy of religion is based on what is a false universality; whereby the white/Western experience is paradigmatic of humanity at-large. The fact remains that Howard Thurman, James H. Cone and William R. Jones, among others, have produced a substantial amount of



theological work quite worthy of consideration by philosophers of religion. Yet this corpus of thought is not reflected in the scholarly literature that constitutes the main body of philosophy of religion. Neglect and ignorance of African American Studies is widespread in the academy. By including chapters on Thurman, Cone and Jones, the present book functions as a corrective to this scholarly lacuna.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961138903321

Autore

Ringrose Jessica

Titolo

Postfeminist education? : girls and the sexual politics of schooling / / Jessica Ringrose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25971-6

1-283-58642-8

9786613898876

0-203-10682-2

1-136-25972-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Foundations and futures of education

Classificazione

EDU000000EDU029070EDU034000

Disciplina

370/.82

Soggetti

Feminism and education

Sex differences in education

Sex discrimination in education

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

Cover; Postfeminist Education?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction Postfeminism, education and girls; 2: Successful girls? Exploring educational media and policy' scapes' and the postfeminist panic over feminine 'success'; 3: Mean or violent girls? Exploring the postfeminist panic over feminine aggression; 4: Sexy girls? The middle class postfeminist panic over girls' 'sexualisation' and the protectionist discourses of sex education; 5: Rethinking debates on girls' agency Critiquing postfeminist discourses of 'choice'



6: Towards a new discursive, psychosocial and affective theoretical-methodological approach7: Sexual regulation and embodied resistance Teen girls entering into and negotiating competitive heterosexualised, postfeminist femininity; 8: Girls negotiating postfeminist, sexualised media contexts; 9: Conclusion Ways forward for feminism and education; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone 'too far' with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender transformations. The book is the first to outline and critique how educational discourses have directly fed into postfeminist anxieties, exploring three postfeminist panics over girls and girlhood that circulate widely in the international media and popular culture. First it explores how a masculinity crisis over failing boys in school has spawned a backlash discourse about overly successful girls; second it looks at how widespread anxieties over girls becoming excessively mean and/or violent have positioned female aggression as pathological; third it examines how incessant concerns over controlling risky female sexuality underpin recent sexualisation of girls moral panics. The book outlines how these postfeminist panics over girlhood have influenced educational policies and practices in areas such as academic achievement, anti-bullying strategies and sex-education curriculum, making visible the new postfeminist, sexual politics of schooling. Moving beyond media or policy critique, however, this book offers new theoretical and methodological tools for researching postfeminism, girlhood and education. It engages with current theoretical debates over possibilities for girls' agency and empowerment in postfeminist, neo-liberal contexts of sexual regulation. It also elaborates new psychosocial and feminist Deleuzian methodological approaches for mapping subjectivity, affectivity and social change"--