Being Feminist, Being Christian Essays from Academia

by Jule, Allyson; Pedersen, Bettina Tate

• ISBN13: 9780230606449
• ISBN10: 023060644X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of eight extended essays explores the various intersections of feminism, feminist theory and practice, and Christian tradition as it is lived out in the lives of Christian academics. The basic question informing this volume is "Can a person be Christian and feminist at the same time?" The authors aim to demonstrate that a person can, and go on to illustrate the various ways current thinkers are working this out. This collection is unique in its gathering of Christian perspectives from both Catholic and Protestant traditions.

Author Biography

Allyson Jule is Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Glamorgan, Wales. Bettina Tate Pedersen is Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Being Feminist, Being Christian	p. 1
Christian Feminist or Feminist Christian: What's Feminism Got to Do with Evangelical Christians?	p. 9
Silence as Femininity?: A Look at Performances of Gender in Theology College Classrooms	p. 35
Blessed Mother or Material Mom: Which Madonna Am I?	p. 59
In Search of Bodily Perspective: A Study of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray	p. 81
Two Women Speaking "Woman": The Strategic Essentialism of Luce Irigaray and Phoebe Palmer	p. 111
Speaking Out: Feminist Theology and Women's Proclamation in the Wesleyan Tradition	p. 127
Nascent Christian Feminism in Medieval and Early-Modern Britain	p. 157
Biblical Literalism and Gender Stability: A Christian Response to Gender Performance Theory	p. 181
About the Authors	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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