Making the Difference: Gender, Personhood and Theology
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Interrogation of Theories of Gender -- Part I: Gender Issues -- 1. What is Gender? -- Origins of Gender Dualism in the West -- Critical Studies of Gender -- Sex and Gender -- Androgyny -- From 'Sex' and 'Gender&#...
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Interrogation of Theories of Gender -- Part I: Gender Issues -- 1. What is Gender? -- Origins of Gender Dualism in the West -- Critical Studies of Gender -- Sex and Gender -- Androgyny -- From 'Sex' and 'Gender' to 'Power' and 'Difference' -- Contemporary Theories of Gender -- The Interdisciplinary Nature of Theories of Gender -- The Influence of Feminist Theory and Practice -- Critical Studies of Men and Masculinity -- The Influence of Postmodernism -- Notes -- 2. Gender and the Churches -- Priesthood as 'Male* Gender Representation and God -- The Social Construction of Gender -- 'Masculinity' and 'Femininity' in the Churches -- Power and Difference -- The Distinctiveness of Women -- Conclusion -- Part II: Gender Disciplines -- 3. Anthropology: Gender, Nature and Culture -- Is Gender Universal? -- Gender', Nature and Culture -- The Origins of Gender Hierarchy -- 4. Biology: Sex, Gender and Science -- Biological Essentialism -- Sociobiology and Ideology -- Determinism and Reductionism -- Notes -- 5. Psychoanalysis: Gender, Subjectivity and Knowledge -- Later Interpreters of Freud Juliet Mitchell and the Rehabilitation of Freud -- Notes -- Part III: Gender Themes -- 6. Bodies: History, Epistemology and Practice -- History of the Body: Changing Practices and Definitions -- From 'The Body' to 'Our Bodies' -- Foucault and the Discipline of Bodies -- Feminism and the Feminine Body -- Writing the Body -- Bodies as Sites of Resistance -- The Male Body -- Bodies and Practice -- Notes -- 7. Ideas of Nature -- 'Nature' in Historical Context -- Gender Relations and 'The Death of Nature' -- The Social Construction of the Natural -- The 'Eternal Feminine' Feminism and the Problem of Nature -- 8. The Challenge of Difference -- Differences and Diversity -- Speaking of Difference -- Irigaray, Cixous, Wittig, Kristeva -- Critique -- Deconstruction and Difference -- Beyond Essentialism: A Return to Praxis? -- Notes -- 9. Knowledge: Feminist Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science -- Feminist Empiricism and Value-Neutrality -- Towards a Woman-Friendly Science -- Standpoint Epistemologies -- Feminist Postmodernism: The Challenge to Epistemology -- Knowledge as Human Practice -- Notes -- 10. Making the Difference: Towards a Theology of Gender Towards a 'Theology of Gender -- Gender, Theology and Christian Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0264673468 |