ABSTRACT

Contributors examine white feminist theology's misappropriations of Native North American women, Chinese footbinding, and veiling by Muslim women, as well as the Jewish emancipation in France, the symbolic dismemberment of black women by rap and sermons, and the potential to rewrite and reclaim canonical stories.

part |82 pages

Challenging Feminist Religious Discourse

chapter |21 pages

The Breasts of Columbus

A Political Anatomy of Postcolonialism and Feminist Religious Discourse

chapter |20 pages

Unbinding Our Feet

Saving Brown Women and Feminist Religious Discourse

chapter |18 pages

Sartorial Fabric-ations

Enlightenment and Western Feminism

part |78 pages

Rethinking Texts and Traditions

chapter |19 pages

The Prostitute's Gold

Women, Religion, and Sanskrit in One Corner of India

chapter |19 pages

Multiple Critique

Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies

chapter |19 pages

Letting Go of Liberalism

Feminism and the Emancipation of the Jews