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Religion, Feminism, And The Family »

Authors: Carr, Anne E. Carr (Editor), Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
ISBN-13: 9780664255121, ISBN-10: 0664255124
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Carr

Book Synopsis

Despite the tension between some proponents of feminism and organized religion, particularly in regard to family life, little has been written to view religion, feminism, and the family simultaneously. Drawing on history, theology, and the social sciences, the contributors to this volume analyze the impact of feminism on the experience of family life in its religious dimension. Religion, Feminism, and the Family is designed to stimulate discussion on both the contemporary women's movement and the future of the American family.

	Series Foreword
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Religion and Feminism: A Reformist Christian Analysis	11
2	Re-Inventing the Ties that Bind: Feminism and the Family at the Close of the Twentieth Century	33
3	The Family in the Hebrew Bible	55
4	The Family in Rabbinic Judaism	74
5	Christian Understandings of Human Nature and Gender	95
6	A Common Love: Christian Feminist Ethics and the Family	111
7	Christianity, Women, and the Medieval Family	127
8	The Early Modern Period: Religion, the Family, and Women's Public Roles	149
9	Restoring the Divine Order to the World: Religion and the Family in the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement	166
10	Religion, Feminism, and the American Family: 1865-1920	183
11	"Take Your Girlie to the Movies": Dating and Entertainment in Twentieth-Century America	197
12	Reluctant Feminists: Rural Women and the Myth of the Farm Family	223
13	Rethinking Private and Public Patriarchy	249
14	Family and Work: Can Anyone "Have It All"?	275
15	Sacrificial and Parental Spiritualities	294
16	The "Recovery" of Fatherhood?	310
17	"Lifting as We Climb": Womanist Theorizing about Religion and the Family	330
18	A Voice from "The Borderlands": Asian-American Women and their Families	344
19	Shakti and Sati: Women, Religion, and Development	358
	Final Reflections	377
	Index of Names and Subjects	383