Embodied Love: Sensuality and Relationship As Feminist Values

Bys: Paula M. Cooey and Sharon A. Farmer

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062548255
• ISBN13: 9780062548252
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Exploring the Diversity of Love

This is a classic text of essays on feminism, love, and spirituality. Its contributors make up a list of some of the most influential feminists voices in religion. Of particular note is chapter eight, "Relational Love: A Feminist Christian Vision." In this essay, author Linell E. Cady argues for themes that have come to characterize feminist view of love: mutuality, relationality, and eros. The topics covered are extensive, and perhaps the best way to introduce the book is to provide chapter titles: Embodiment, Identity, and Value 1. The Word Become Flesh: Woman's Body, Language, and Value: Paula M. Cooey 2. The "Quilting" of Women's History: Phoebe of Cenchreae: Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza 3. Reverence for Life: The Need for a Sense of Finitude: Carol Christ 4. Spirit and Matter, Public and Private: The Challenge of Feminism to Traditional Dualisms: Rosemary Radford Ruether Embodiment, Communication, and Ethics 5. Problems with Feminist Theory: Historicity and the Search for Sure Foundations: Sheila Greeve Davaney 6. Female Voice, Written Word: Women and Authority in Hebrew Scripture: Claudia V. Camp 7. Softening the Hearts of Men: Women, Embodiment, and Persuasion in the Thirteenth Century: Sharon A. Farmer 8. Relational Love: A Feminist Christian Vision: Linell E. Cady 9. The Ethical Limitations of Autonomy: A Critique of the Moral Vision of Psychological Man: Mary Ellen Ross Embodiment, Relationship, and Religious Experience 10. Negotiation Autonomy: African Women and Christianity: Terri A. Castaneda 11. Piety, Persuasion, and Friendship: Female Jewish Leadership in Modern Times: Ellen M. Umansky 12. Madonnas for a New World: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Iconography of Faith: Patricia R. Hill 13. Aesthetic Vision, Prophetic Voice: Intimacy and Social Justice in Kaethe Kollqitz and Dorothea Lange: Gregor Goethals I recommend this book of diverse and engaging essays. Thomas Jay Oord

Dig up a copy of this book

Though currently out of print, I recommed that anyone interested in the issues relating to women and embodiment find this book and read it. A stunning collection of essays from some the foremost scholars in the field, you don't want to miss this. I especially recommend the essay by Dr. Paula Cooey.