Womanist Ethics And the Cultural Production of Evil

by Townes, Emilie M.

• ISBN13: 9781403972736
• ISBN10: 1403972737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-14
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

Author Biography

Emilie M. Townes is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School with a joint appointment in the African American Studies Department of Yale University, the Religious Studies Department, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program.  She is the author of previous books: Womanist Ethics, Womanist Hope, In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness, and Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care.

Table of Contents

Preface: On Memory	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
The Womanist Dancing Mind: Cavorting with Culture and Evil	1	(10)
Sites of Memory: Proceedings too Terrible to Relate	11	(18)
Vanishing into Limbo: The Moral Dilemma of Identity as Property and Commodity	29	(28)
Invisible Things Spoken: Uninterrogated Coloredness	57	(22)
Legends Are Memories Greater than Memories: Black Reparations in the United States as Subtext to Christian Triumphalism and Empire	79	(32)
To Pick One's Own Cotton: Religious Values, Public Policy, and Women's Moral Autonomy	111	(28)
Growing like Topsy: Solidarity in the Work of Dismantling Evil	139	(20)
Everydayness: Beginning Notes on Dismantling the Cultural Production of Evil	159	(8)
Notes	167	(30)
Index	197