San Antonio College Library

"Rethinking the Christian faith from a woman's perspective has been an important advancement in modern theology. This book introduces the methods, ideas, and contributions of recent feminist theology to readers encountering the subject for the first time. Natalie Watson explores the historical background of feminist theology, discusses the value of reading Scripture from a feminist perspective, and shows how this approach can offer a critical, creative,...

21 women from the Old and 15 from the New Testaments: their stories, background, contemporary criticism, prayers, group questions and answers, and bibliography.

The idea of a feminist approach to Scripture often produces knee-jerk reactions that one's in for mangled language at best and an anti-Christian attitude at worst. In this clear, highly readable work, Nicholas King explains the feminist approach to Scripture and the reasons and aims behind it. The author makes the approach accessible and sympathetic to those both interested in and alarmed by the topic.

The author explores how biblical discourses shape our understanding of the world and "how reimagining the Bible can contribute to the spiritual struggle for a more just world, and why we fail to embrace such an undertaking at our own peril."--Jacket.

"The women in Jesus' life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives." "In seven studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthew's Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus' foremothers, slave girls, and prophetic...

Female sexual imagery in Hosea / T. Drorah Setel -- Every two minutes : battered women and feminist interpretation / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Feminist interpretation : a method of correlation / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The will to choose or to reject : continuing our critical work / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Authority and the challenge of feminist interpretation / Letty M. Russell -- Postscript : jottings on the journey / Phyllis Trible....

In the world that created the Bible, there were no female scholars and theologians; yet since World War II, owing to such stunning discoveries as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts and to advances in historical understanding, a new generation of scholars has found new ways of reading the Scriptures - including querying the role that male divines have traditionally assigned to women, both those who populate the Bible and those living in...

Advancing the literature on a critical topic, this important new work illuminates the relationship between the anguish of eating disorder sufferers and the problems of ordinary women. The book covers a wide variety of issues - from ways in which gender may predispose women to eating disorders to the widespread cultural concerns these problems symbolize. Throughout, the psychology of women is reflected in the concepts and methods described; there is...

"The newest attacks on the First Amendment and on free expression have come from a vocal and influential segment of the feminist movement that has launched a successful - and puritanical - crusade against "pornography" as the root of discrimination and violence against women." "But, as Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, forcefully argues, this view of sexuality as inherently dangerous does profound damage to human rights...

"Sexting Panic illustrates how anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, Amy Adele Hasinoff notes that criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for the distinction between consensual sharing and the malicious distribution of a private image. Hasinoff challenges...