Women, Gender, Religion
Subtitle: A Reader
Contributors: Elizabeth A. Castelli (Editor); Rosamond C. Rodman (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 12, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780312240301
Subjects: Religion: general; Women's studies; Social Science; Religion - Socialissues; Textbooks; Sociology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; General; Women's Studies - General; Religion / General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science : Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science : Women's Studies - General; Statistics; Feminism; Religious aspects; Sex role; Women and religion
First sentence: To put it schematically: "women" is historically, discursively constructed, and always relative to other categories which themselves change; "women" is a volatile collectivity in which female persons can be very differently positioned....The history of feminism has also been a struggle against over-zealous identifications; and feminism must negotiate the quicksands of "women" which will not allow it to settle on either identities or counter-identities, but which condemn it to an incessant striving for a brief foothold...Can anyone fully inhabit a gender without a degree of horror?