Religion, Feminism, and the Family

by Carr, Anne E.; Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart

• ISBN13: 9780664255121
• ISBN10: 0664255124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Despite the tension between some proponents of feminism and organized religion, particularly in regard to family life, little has been written to view religion, feminism, and the family simultaneously. Drawing on history, theology, and the social sciences, the contributors to this volume analyze the impact of feminism on the experience of family life in its religious dimension.Religion, Feminism, and the Familyis designed to stimulate discussion on both the contemporary women's movement and the future of the American family.The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Religion and Feminism: A Reformist Christian Analysis	p. 11
Re-Inventing the Ties that Bind: Feminism and the Family at the Close of the Twentieth Century	p. 33
The Family in the Hebrew Bible	p. 55
The Family in Rabbinic Judaism	p. 74
Christian Understandings of Human Nature and Gender	p. 95
A Common Love: Christian Feminist Ethics and the Family	p. 111
Christianity, Women, and the Medieval Family	p. 127
The Early Modern Period: Religion, the Family, and Women's Public Roles	p. 149
Restoring the Divine Order to the World: Religion and the Family in the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement	p. 166
Religion, Feminism, and the American Family: 1865-1920	p. 183
"Take Your Girlie to the Movies": Dating and Entertainment in Twentieth-Century America	p. 197
Reluctant Feminists: Rural Women and the Myth of the Farm Family	p. 223
Rethinking Private and Public Patriarchy	p. 249
Family and Work: Can Anyone "Have It All"?	p. 275
Sacrificial and Parental Spiritualities	p. 294
The "Recovery" of Fatherhood?	p. 310
"Lifting as We Climb": Womanist Theorizing about Religion and the Family	p. 330
A Voice from "The Borderlands": Asian-American Women and their Families	p. 344
Shakti and Sati: Women, Religion, and Development	p. 358
Final Reflections	p. 377
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 383
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