J. Ellice Hopkins: The Construction of a Recent Spiritual Feminist Foremother
This article retrieves the contribution of a nineteenth-century proto-feminist activist for the history of the womanspirit movement. But that is not its primary purpose. Above all, the article asks a methodological question: namely, how post-Christian spiritual feminists might claim recent foremothe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
1996
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Feminist theology
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 13, Pages: 73-95 |
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| Summary: | This article retrieves the contribution of a nineteenth-century proto-feminist activist for the history of the womanspirit movement. But that is not its primary purpose. Above all, the article asks a methodological question: namely, how post-Christian spiritual feminists might claim recent foremothers when most women of spirit have, until the early 1970s, been inspired by Christian patriarchal theology. I argue that Hopkins's direct action can be read as exemplifying female sacrality in action. Her 'rescue' of sexually abused women has, I conclude, a mythical and sacerdotal element that both subverts and transcends its patriarchal context. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/096673509600001305 |