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{"title":"Irish Nuns and Education in the Anglophone World, 1800–1900","authors":"Deirdre Raftery, Catriona Delaney","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085167","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an account of some of the education provisions by Irish women religious, in the Anglophone world, in the nineteenth century. Although many orders sent Sisters around the globe, to both establish and run schools for English-speaking children, the main focus of this article is on two Irish orders, the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sisters of Mercy. While the work of other female congregations is noted, the focus on these two orders reflects the fact that they spread quickly around the globe, attracting many Irish vocations and eventually making a substantial contribution to education. The Sisters of Mercy were also known for their work in health care; however, the focus of this article is on education. The article commences with a review of the research in the field and the approaches taken by historians. The article also notes some lacunae in research and points to areas that merit more attention. The article then examines the experience of Irish nuns overseas and the contribution of the Mercy and Presentation nuns.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Individuality Combined with Entrepreneurial Spirit: Breaking Patriarchal Codes in Prabha Khaitan’s A Life Apart","authors":"Shalini Yadav","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085169","url":null,"abstract":"Writing about “self” as an autobiography became an elite device in the hands of many Indian women post independence, who wished to write about their lives and exerted strenuously to break the restrictions imposed on them within the “four-walled peripheries” to construct their own identity and exhibit their individuality in various fields such as sports, business, film industry, defense, and in various other professions. They assertively voiced in the form of writing their life narratives to discard the burden of patriarchal dominance where with a prevalent sense of gender discrimination, they are considered feeble, inept, or subjugated. This article explores and cognizes the course of an inspirational and tear-jerking narrative, A Life Apart, crafted by a well-off industrialist and writer, Prabha Khaitan who flouted her community codes and stated against injustices and hypocrisies prevalent in the male-dominated society. It analyses how Prabha footsteps the arduous trail between the passion for love, work, and independence and the pull of traditions and family restrictions to be her own woman creating her own identity.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47057845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stirring Being with Grace: A Queer Pneumatological Disruption of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Gender","authors":"E. Cable","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085165","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, I aim to elaborate a constructive pneumatology—seen as through a glass darkly, in contemporary progressive Catholic and queer theologies—that has the power to challenge, and transform, ways of thinking theologically that are profoundly informed by gender essentialism. This effort to disrupt gender essentialism may be framed as part of the ongoing liberationist task—to identify and disrupt human idols that, theologically, reign in the place of the transformative grace of God and that, ethically, hinder the flourishing of God’s creation.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47348093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trans Issues? Beyond a Hermeneutic of Mutilation","authors":"Judith Tatton-Schiff","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085168","url":null,"abstract":"This article questions whether the ‘problem’ of trans issues lies more in the binary, patriarchal structures of our society than it does in our bodies. I utilize Marcella Althaus-Reid’s ‘Hermeneutic of Mutilation’, arguing that, much as ‘to give hospitality to our own fragmentations may require sometimes acts of transformations’, we must not support the heteropatriarchal pattern and system as it attempts to normalize, police, control or punish the ‘deviant’ bodies of transgender individuals, from ‘wrong’ and ‘less than’ into ‘right’ and ‘cured’. As postmodern deconstruction has informed and influenced our thinking around identity, the modern, biological approach to sex/gender has been profoundly challenged. I will make a parallel between current debates around trans issues and disability, body and liberation theology; if disability only ‘becomes’ a disability when the able-bodied majority designates it as ‘other’, are trans folk being similarly ‘othered’, as their different bodies, perspectives or identities challenge the fearful, defended mind-sets of society? Should we continue to prioritize ‘fixing’ trans bodies, in order to have them fit more neatly within that society? Or, should we challenge the patriarchal, heteronormative moulds of a culture that would rather trans individuals ‘accept’ their ‘wrongness’ and take steps to ‘correct’ that wrongness? This is not to say that trans+ individuals should not continue to make exactly the same medical/surgical choices as are currently the norm and even to choose modes of gender expression that are binary or ‘traditional’, should that be their desire and choice. Rather, this is an appeal for all of us to challenge a society that deems some bodies ‘right’ and others as ‘wrong’, and expects such painful conformity.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48600731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"L. Isherwood","doi":"10.1177/09667350221096064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221096064","url":null,"abstract":"As I sit here in January, there are so many issues pressing upon us both national and international, our current Prime Minister is unable to tell if he is at a party or not and due to his precarious position is telling Whips to exert undue pressure in the shape of bribes and threats, respectively. Meanwhile, this terrible and even unlawful behaviour distracts from families unable to both heat and eat, threats from Russia, the right to protest being threatened, and the government even attempting to pass legislation that allows them to remove citizenship with no notice to the person concerned. I read Madeleine Allbright’s ‘Fascism: A warning from History’ some years ago and while I have no particular admiration for a woman who claimed rape was a consequence of war and people should just get used to the fact, I am grateful for the book. She lived under a fascist regime and in the book clearly shows how such regimes creep up with initial policies that please many and do not cause much concern with others. As Michael Rosen so eloquently put it, ‘fascism did not come with jackboots but in carpet slippers’. The bedrock of such systems is lies, ‘othering’ and overriding laws that simply do not suit the ruling party. For some time, we have known that politicians play games with the absolute truth, but in recent years, this has become blatantly obvious and at times, it seems there is no desire to hide it, believing as some do that they are above the modes of behaviour expected of others. We saw this so blatantly with Trump who appears to live in a world of his own making where only his truth matters and all else is fake news. But sadly, our own mini Trump seems to believe he too can get away with creating the world in his own image. There are so many leaders around the world who believe this is the reality for them, would it be too obvious to suggest that this is what patriarchy ultimately lends itself too – men creating worlds in their own image! As a number of articles in this issue suggest it is more than patriarchy, although the two concepts are intrinsically linked, it is heteronormativity. This concept stretches well beyond the bounds of simple sexual identification and into the way in which the world is perceived as we see in the work of Marcella Althaus-Reid and others. Certainly, it is a frame that declares normative structures and behaviours which has been applied and is still applied to sexual and gender relations however, what it does by this declaring things as abnormal is to marginalize or even bury emerging epistemologies based in differently lived experience. Within the narrow confines of a gendered and sexualized understanding, it is the straight white man who is the norm and as we have come to see this construction, for that is what it is, is tightly bound into oppressions ranging from gender 1096064 FTH0010.1177/09667350221096064Feminist TheologyEditorial research-article2022","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48216753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Out of Control: Couples, Conflict and the Capacity for Change","authors":"Alison Jasper","doi":"10.1177/09667350221096066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221096066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43415875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Queer and Indecent: An Introduction to Marcella Althaus Reid","authors":"L. Isherwood","doi":"10.1177/09667350221096063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221096063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44451349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Gay Bashing” in Sacred Space: Lesbian Feminism and the Rise of Digital Violence","authors":"Laulie Eckeberger","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085164","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when our digital sacred spaces become violent and incite trauma or trigger reminders of traumatic experiences? This project will delve into these questions as we begin to think about trauma in digital spaces for the Lesbian-Feminist. For example, we scroll through Facebook and see that an uncle has posted a homophobic article. The logical response to this, the response that our spiritual selves tell us to follow through on, is to delete this person from our Facebook friends. Clicking the delete button is a virtual action, yet a very real and physical manifestation of losing family and friends because of their homophobia or sexism. In digital sacred spaces in particular, there is a tension between self-preservation and engaging so as to educate and bring about understanding. If we cannot even occupy the same digital spaces, how can we ever grow to occupy the same physical spaces?","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47591403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Indecent Theologies of Marcella Althaus-Reid: Voices From Asia and Latin America","authors":"M. Clay","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085156","url":null,"abstract":"male entitlement that, she knows, lie at the heart or form the ‘trunk’ (p. 59) of this issue. Collins is conscious that evangelical Christian culture (p. 83) is profoundly invested in conventional (outmoded?) gender norms. Thus, for example, she makes reference to the practices of ‘Christian Domestic Discipline’ whose website advocates physical punishment of ‘unrepentant’ wives and children (p. 27). But though she sees this as ‘distorted theology’, she does not appear to feel, for example, that Biderman’s identification of ‘demonstrating omnicompetence’ as a key element in the torturer’s playbook (p. 19) raises issues for the trope of Almighty God itself. Perhaps she feels that the distortion comes from the fact that whereas God is actually ‘all-mighty’, human males go wrong by aping this divine trait. This is certainly an argument that has been employed by abusers in the past – that their entitlement is modelled by (a masculine) God. She does not often use the term ‘Almighty’ in reference to her own grace or Jesus-focussed spirituality though it does come up in the chapter ‘“What would Jesus do? (All that theology stuff)” as “an almighty force”’ (p. 80). For this reader, the spectre of God represented as Alpha Male (p. 71) still hangs in the air. If the Almighty is a toxic trope or mode of masculinity for human beings, then it is equally if not more toxic when associated with God. Moreover, from Collins’ perspective, it seems to exemplify a ‘Do as I say, not as I do!’ approach. If grace is available only if we give our absolute trust to an Almighty power, we give that demand for total devotion, for the taming and control of our whole selves by another, a dangerously seductive lustre. There is clearly more to be discussed here, and theology would not appear to be Collins’ first priority in this book. Her priority – beyond reaching out to suffering women – is, perhaps, rather to suggest faith as a legitimate resource. And she surely makes a point when she draws attention to the fact that feminist women – even those who support DV survivors – are sometimes less than sympathetic to women for whom their faith is an important part of who they are or an important part of how they have been able to get beyond their experiences of violent abuse (p. 30) without losing their whole selves in the process. Arguably, practices of genuine piety at odds with so-called ‘secular’ norms are not only or necessarily regressive in feminist terms (Mahmood, Princeton University Press, 2004).","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65313436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Street Mothers: How Might a Feminist Critique of Christology Impact the Christian Faith of Women on Council Estates in the United Kingdom?","authors":"Sophie Cowan","doi":"10.1177/09667350221085171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350221085171","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages feminist critiques of Christology with the views of Christian women living on council estates in the United Kingdom. It explores some of the ways in which the faith of such women connects with and/or contradicts feminist and womanist understandings of Christ. It is demonstrated that Jesus has been thought of in terms of ‘Nan-Nan’, or as a ‘Street Mother’, and that women living in areas of economic deprivation, and elsewhere, might lay claim to such terminology as a way to further articulate identification with Christ, and in order to challenge traditionally androcentric Christology. A series of Christological questions are explored, for example, ‘Who is Jesus?’; ‘Do you think Jesus puts men in charge of women?’ and the anonymised answers are recorded at the beginning of each chapter. It is proposed that feminist Christology may enhance a sentiment already present among Christian women on estates, and, further to this, propel the pursuit of liberation from kyriarchal oppression. In this way, the Christian faith of women on estates is, and can become more and more so, an act of insubordination in the face of oppression of many kinds. Not least, it contributes a fresh and important Christological perspective.","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48633771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}