Authors: Michele M. Schumacher
ISBN-13: 9780802812940, ISBN-10: 0802812945
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
The challenge of promoting the "new feminism" has barely been addressed since it was first launched by Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae. The ten contributors to this book, all outstanding international scholars, take up this task, together laying the necessary theoretical foundation for the new feminism. These chapters articulate an integral philosophical and theological understanding of persons that moves beyond patriarchy on the one hand and traditional feminism on the other. Central to the new perspective offered here is the biblical revelation of the human person -- man and woman -- in Christ, a vision that directs women beyond the "male" standard against which they have too often been measured. Far from constraining women to an "eternal essence," the dynamic view presented here encourages each woman to realize herself in perfect Christian freedom.
Foreword | ||
An Introduction to a New Feminism | ||
Pt. I | Philosophical Anthropology | |
Gender Difference: Critical Questions concerning Gender Studies | 3 | |
The Nature of Nature in Feminism, Old and New: From Dualism to Complementary Unity | 17 | |
New Feminism: A Sex-Gender Reunion | 52 | |
Philosophy of Relation in John Paul II's New Feminism | 67 | |
Woman's Threefold Vocation according to Edith Stein | 105 | |
Pt. II | Theological Anthropology | |
The New Feminism: Biblical Foundations and Some Lines of Development | 141 | |
Feminist Experience and Faith Experience | 169 | |
The Unity of the Two: Toward a New Feminist Sacramentality of the Body | 201 | |
The Teachers of Man, for the Church as Bride | 232 | |
Pt. III | Ethical and Practical Consequences | |
Can Feminism Be a Humanism? | 251 | |
Ethical Equality in a New Feminism | 285 | |
Equality, Difference, and the Practical Problems of a New Feminism | 297 | |
A Creative Difference: Educating Women | 312 | |
Contributors | 324 | |
Further Reading: A New Feminist Bibliography | 327 | |
Index | 333 |