""Wounds of the Spirit" is a complex book about a complex and
difficult topic."
-- "Hypatia"
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person
accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina
Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence
against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist
Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion
of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African
American women.
Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the church in
response to violence against African American women, the book
identifies specific social mechanisms which contribute to the
reproduction of intimate violence. West insists that cultural
beliefs as well as institutional practices must be altered if we
are to combat the reproduction of violence, and suggests methods of
resistance which can be utilized by victim-survivors, those in the
helping professions, and the church.
Interrogating the dynamics of black women's experiences of
emotional and spiritual trauma through the diverse disciplines of
psychology, sociology, and theology, this important work will be of
interest and practical use to those in women's studies, African
American studies, Christian ethics, feminist and womanist theology,
women's health, family counseling, and pastoral care.
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