Reinterpreting the Eucharist

Reinterpreting the Eucharist

Author: Anne F. Elvey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317544072

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The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a diverse range of voices with each using their own marginalized experience to explore other ways – indigenous culture, medieval and contemporary art, social history, and environmental ethics – of engaging with the Eucharist. Presenting new forms of theological and ethical engagement, the book responds to the challenge of reconsidering the meaning of the Eucharist today.


Liberating Conscience

Liberating Conscience

Author: Anne E. Patrick

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 1997-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780826410511

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Praise for Liberating Conscience: "Perceptive and sympathetic ... Patrick's superb study is a worthy successor to a spate of recent contributions." --Choice "Profoundly captivating and persuasive." --National Catholic Reporter


The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics

The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics

Author: Josephine Donovan

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780231140393

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In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a link between the continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions, this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition.


Moral Understandings

Moral Understandings

Author: Margaret Urban Walker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-09-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780199727353

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This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is inescapably shaped by culture and history. The main gist of her book is that morality is embodied in "practices of responsibility" that express our identities, values, and connections to others in socially patterned ways. Thus ethical theory needs to be empirically informed and politically critical to avoid reiterating forms of socially entrenched bias. Responsible ethical theory should reveal and question the moral significance of social differences. The book engages with, and challenges, the work of contemporary analytic philosophers in ethics. Moral Understandings has been influential in reaching a global audience in ethics and feminist philosophy, as well as in tangential fields like nursing ethics; research ethics; disability ethics; environmental ethics, and social and political theory. This revised edition contains a new preface, a substantive postscript to Chapter 1 about "the subject of moral philosophy"; the addition of a new chapter on the importance of emotion in practices of responsibility; and the addition of an afterword, which responds to critics of the book.


Justice And Care

Justice And Care

Author: Virginia Held

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1995-11-03

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0429968019

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This book, an essential tool for anyone studying the state of feminist thought in particular or ethical theory in general, shows the outlines of an ethic of care in the distinctive practices of African American communities and considers how the values of care and justice can be reformulated.


A Feminist Ethic of Risk

A Feminist Ethic of Risk

Author: Sharon D. Welch

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781451418262

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An updated edition of this influential feminist text.


Speaking from the Heart

Speaking from the Heart

Author: Rita C. Manning

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Manning successfully argues that theory and ethics should once again be reunited...thorough and provocative...--THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW


Of Women Borne

Of Women Borne

Author: Cynthia R. Wallace

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0231541201

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The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality. Wallace's approach recognizes the generative interplay between ethical form and content in literature, which helps isolate more distinctly the gendered and religious echoes of suffering and sacrifice in Western culture. By refracting these resonances through the work of feminists and theologians of color, her book also shows the value of broad-ranging ethical explorations into literature, with their power to redefine theories of reading and the nature of our responsibility to art and each other.


Women, Knowledge, and Reality

Women, Knowledge, and Reality

Author: Ann Garry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1134719469

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This second edition of Women, Knowledge, and Reality continues to exhibit the ways in which feminist philosophers enrich and challenge philosophy. Essays by twenty-five feminist philosophers, seventeen of them new to the second edition, address fundamental issues in philosophical and feminist methods, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophies of science, language, religion and mind/body. This second edition expands the perspectives of women of color, of postmodernism and French feminism, and focuses on the most recent controversies in feminist theory and philosophy. The chapters are organized by traditional fields of philosophy, and include introductions which contrast the ideas of feminist thinkers with traditional philosophers. The collected essays illustrate both the depth and breadth of feminist critiques and the range of contemporary feminist theoretical perspectives.