Some feminist women search for the roots of feminism in the recent
past; others write the past off. Too many assume that religious
traditions have nothing to offer feminism, so even when religious
belief has been central to the inspiration of some of the most
powerful campaigners for the value and worth of women, the
significance of that belief has been ignored.
Mary Wollstonecraft argued for the 'rights' of women'; Josephine
Butler fought against the devaluation of women expressed in the
Contagious Diseases Acts; Dorothy L. Sayers had a powerful sense of
the way women and men grace one another's lives in their work. They
all drew on the Christian tradition of their own times, but this
has rarely been given weight. These women have not been considered
together, nor as theologians, as here in Ann Loades's new book. In
their life time, each of them opened up some painful issues:
abortion and its significance in our shared social lives, forms of
coercion, especially the sexual abuse of children, and the
importance of women's work. Their courage and generosity offer
salutary challenges to our own times.
"Feminist Theology" will be of interest to all those concerned with
contemporary theological questions as well as to students of
feminism and the analysis of gender, in sociology, politics and the
humanities.
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