Women Don't Count The Challenge of Women's Poverty to Christian Ethics

by Brubaker, Pamela K.

• ISBN13: 9781555409586
• ISBN10: 155540958X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This work examines the dynamics through which women are marginalized andimpoverished, and offers a constructive proposal for addressing women'ssocio-economic vulnerability. Part One surveys the economic status of womenglobally and discerns both common threads of subordination and significantdifferences among women. Part Two reviews the social-justice positions of theRoman Catholic church and the World Council of Churches in light of this survey.Part Three identifies theoretical resources that adequately address women'ssocio-economic vulterability. Brubaker advances her own theoretical approach,which illuminates and engages women's impoverishment. She concludes with adiscussion of how placing women's economic condition at the center of Christianeconomic ethics would affect social analysis, economic policy, and socialvision.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The Scope of the Problem
Women's Economic Reality: Deepening Perspectives	p. 23
Invisibility of Women's Economic Vulnerability in Progressive Christian Ethics
Roman Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life in Relation to Women's Reality	p. 59
The World Council of Churches: Ecumenical Social Ethics and Women's Reality	p. 111
Economic Ethics as if Women Counted
Moving Towards Visibility: Governmental Perspectives and the Rising Voices of Women	p. 163
Taking Women's Live's Seriously: Toward a New Paradigm	p. 213
Placing Women at the Center: The Difference It Makes in Our Ethics to Render the Invisible Visible	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 263
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