After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender ReconciliationWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993 - 651 páginas Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this substantial volume offers a wide-ranging examination, from a Christian perspective, of the many complexities surrounding gender relations, showing how they have changed and how they still need to change if we are to be the men and women God meant us to be. No other book treats the systemic embedding of gender issues in all areas of life. |
Índice
Living between the Times Bad News and Good News about Gender Relations | 1 |
Good News and Bad in the Biblical Drama | 2 |
Good News and Bad in Contemporary Gender Relations | 4 |
Gender Relations and the Biblical Drama | 6 |
Creation Fall and Gender Relations | 7 |
The Redeemer and Gender Reconciliation | 8 |
Gender Relations in the Early Church | 10 |
The Continuing Call to Mutuality | 11 |
Naturalizing Superiority | 290 |
Using Sport to Endorse Hegemonic Masculinity | 293 |
At the Societal Level | 295 |
Whatever Happened to the Fig Leaf? Gender Relations and Dress | 299 |
Defining the Fashion System | 301 |
A Brief History | 305 |
The Emergence of Fashion | 306 |
The Democratization of Fashion | 313 |
Looking Ahead | 13 |
Lights at the End of the Tunnel | 14 |
HISTORICAL AND CROSSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER RELATIONS | 17 |
Feminism and Christian Vision Lessons from the Past | 19 |
How We Define Feminism | 21 |
Some Further Theological Reflections | 25 |
Roots of Contemporary Feminism The First Wave | 28 |
Liberal Thought | 29 |
A Relational Expression of Feminism | 31 |
The Socialist Vision | 37 |
Toward a Dynamic Concept of Gender Relations | 40 |
Western Feminism since the 1960s Lessons from the Present | 44 |
Liberal Feminism Revisited | 45 |
A ClassBased Analysis | 49 |
Women as Producers and Reproducers | 50 |
The Family under Capitalism | 51 |
Socialized or HomeWaged? | 52 |
The Comparable Worth Campaign | 54 |
A Form of Contemporary Relational Feminism | 55 |
The Radical Feminist Retrieval of Mothering | 57 |
The Radical Feminist Rejection of Femininity and the Retrieval of Sexuality | 59 |
Some Theological Observations | 62 |
Socialist and Postmodern Feminism | 63 |
The Challenge of Deconstructionism | 65 |
What Price Pluralism? Problems and New Possibilities | 67 |
A CrossCultural Critique of Western Feminism | 70 |
Challenges to White Western Feminism | 71 |
Autonomy Development and Class | 72 |
Within the Family with Women and with Men | 79 |
Emancipation from Tradition | 89 |
The Decentering of Feminism | 94 |
A New Humility | 95 |
Loss of Moral Grounding for the Feminist Project | 98 |
A Christian Perspective on Difference | 100 |
Toward a Christian Feminist Vision That Embraces Women and Men | 105 |
Conclusion | 112 |
THEOLOGICAL AND RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER RELATIONS | 115 |
Reformed Christianity and Feminism Collision or Correlation? | 117 |
Definitions and Restrictions of Scope | 119 |
Basic Approaches to Christian Life and Thought | 123 |
The Importance of Experience for Christian Life and Thought | 126 |
The Importance of Interpreting and Using Scripture according to TheologicalEthical Norms | 131 |
Conclusion | 145 |
God Humanity and the World in Reformed and Feminist Perspectives | 147 |
The Feminist Critique of Traditional GodLanguage | 149 |
Feminist Alternatives | 153 |
A Reformed Response | 156 |
Humanity and the World | 164 |
The Critique of Dualism and the Affirmation of Wholism | 165 |
The Fallenness of Humanity and the World | 169 |
Equality and Inequality of Women and Men | 177 |
Conclusion | 182 |
Gender Relations and Narrative in a Reformed Church Setting | 184 |
The Importance of Narrative for Gender Relations | 185 |
The Creation Story as a Fundamental and Rhetorical Narrative | 188 |
How Narrative Shapes Religious Experience | 191 |
A Story of Gender Relations | 199 |
An Alternative Story of Creational Norms for Gender Relations | 209 |
Evaluation of the Creation Stories | 215 |
Conclusion | 220 |
THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER RELATIONS | 223 |
A Critical Theory of Gender Relations | 225 |
An Overview | 226 |
A Critique of These Definitions | 227 |
An Overview | 233 |
How Hegemony Works | 235 |
Human Agency and Structural Constraints | 237 |
How Sets of Social Relations Are Connected | 239 |
Critical Theory and Gender Relations | 240 |
Heterogeneity | 241 |
Human Agency | 248 |
Masculinity and Femininity Revisited | 249 |
Privileged Femininity | 254 |
Continuing the Game of Rope Tug | 257 |
Reactions to Challenges | 258 |
Using the Body to Endorse Meanings about Gender | 268 |
Thin Is In | 269 |
Pathogenic Weight Control Behaviors | 271 |
A Historical Perspective | 273 |
Layers of Meaning of Slimness | 276 |
Body Politics | 282 |
Big Strong and Aggressive | 285 |
A Historical Perspective | 287 |
TwentiethCentury Fashion | 327 |
The Tyranny of Physical Perfection | 332 |
The Complicity of the Church | 337 |
Points of Resistance to the Tyranny of Fashion | 338 |
Fashioning the Future | 339 |
How Shall We Speak? Language and Gender Relations | 340 |
Action through Language | 342 |
How Naming and Defining Shape Gender Relations | 345 |
Defining Woman and Man | 348 |
Reclaiming Humanity for Women | 351 |
How the Silencing of Female Experience Shapes Gender Relations | 357 |
Indirect Silencing of Womens Voices | 362 |
Speaking with Respect | 384 |
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND GENDER RELATIONS | 387 |
Private versus Public Life A Case for Degendering | 389 |
Late TwentiethCentury Feminism and the PublicPrivate Dichotomy | 391 |
Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Feminism | 395 |
Concerns of Philosophical Feminism | 399 |
Feminist Theological Critiques of the PublicPrivate Split | 407 |
Creation Sin and the Feminization of Agapic Love | 409 |
The Call to Mutuality in All Spheres of Life | 412 |
Conclusion | 414 |
Family Justice and Societal Nurturance Reintegrating Public and Private Domains | 416 |
Giving Women the Privacy They Need | 417 |
Justice in Philosophical and Biblical Perspectives | 421 |
Distributive Justice and Gender Relations | 423 |
Justice in Biblical Perspective | 425 |
Applying Biblical Justice to Family and Gender Relations | 426 |
Restoring Justice in the Family | 429 |
Justice as a Necessary Condition of Care | 430 |
Making the Public Realm a Sphere of Nurturance | 437 |
The Limits and Potential of Maternal Thinking | 439 |
Attaining Concrete Justice for the Family | 444 |
Bringing Nurturance into the Public Sphere | 446 |
Toward a New Architecture of Gender | 447 |
Conclusion | 451 |
Case Studies from India and Egypt in Class Gender and Survival | 452 |
The Divergent Lives of Men and Women | 456 |
In Cairo | 461 |
The Domestication of Women | 465 |
Individuality and Cooperation in the Family | 467 |
The Ideology of the Housewife | 471 |
Privileged Women and the Ideology of the Housewife | 473 |
LowerClass Women and the Ideology of the Housewife | 483 |
Life Strategies | 489 |
Women in Egyptian Factories | 491 |
Mahila Mandel of Bombay | 493 |
The Veiled Women of Cairo | 494 |
Some Christian Observations | 497 |
Is Someone in the Kitchen with Dinah? Gender and Domestic Work | 503 |
Domestic Work in Historical Perspective | 505 |
The Nature of Contemporary Domestic Work | 514 |
Men and Domestic Work | 519 |
Common Perceptions about Men and Domestic Work | 520 |
Mens Agency and Domestic Work | 523 |
Women and Domestic Work | 524 |
Domestic Work from the Viewpoint of Critical Theory | 528 |
Possibilities for Change | 529 |
Pink White and Blue Collars Gender and Waged Work | 534 |
SexRole Socialization Theory and Human Capital Theory | 537 |
A Critique of These Theories | 538 |
Structural Approaches | 542 |
The Organizational Approach | 543 |
The Pervasiveness of Gender | 547 |
Gendered Structure | 548 |
Gendered Jobs | 550 |
The Gendered Workplace | 553 |
Challenging Resisting Coping and Reconstructing | 563 |
Possibilities for Change | 567 |
CONCLUSION | 575 |
Still Living between the Times Realism and Hope about Gender Relations | 577 |
Im Not a Feminist But | 578 |
Liberal Feminism Revisited | 581 |
Attractions and Hazards of Contemporary Liberal Feminism | 584 |
Relational Feminism Revisited | 586 |
A Better Brand? | 588 |
The Limitations of European Relational Feminism | 590 |
A Third Way? | 594 |
Beyond Critical Theory to Biblical Shalom | 597 |
Final Thoughts | 600 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 601 |
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