Making of Our Lives a Study: Feminist Theology and Women’s Creative Writing
This article examines the relationship between feminist theologies and women’s poetry and fiction. Using Sheila Hassell Hughes’ work on this same relationship as a point of departure, I contend that feminist theologians rely on literature by women for a variety of reasons, and I focus on how literat...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2006
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In: |
Feminist theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-69 |
Further subjects: | B
women’s experience
B Literary Criticism B Poetry B Fiction |
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Summary: | This article examines the relationship between feminist theologies and women’s poetry and fiction. Using Sheila Hassell Hughes’ work on this same relationship as a point of departure, I contend that feminist theologians rely on literature by women for a variety of reasons, and I focus on how literature by women offers feminist theologies a multitude of examples of women’s experience, embodied experience in particular. If women’s experience is the starting point for a truly feminist theology, women’s writing seems an obvious source of the theologian’s materialist and semiotic quest. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735006068849 |