Controversies in body theology - Althaus-Reid, Marcella; Isherwood, Lisa (London, UK : SCM Press, 2008)
Introduction ; slicing women's bodies: Christianity and the cut, mutilated and cosmetically altered believers -- 1. Slicing mothers : violence and the maternal in the Marquis de Sade / Beverley Clack -- 2. "Cut and slash" : remodelling the "freakish" female form / Inga Bryden -- 3. Cutting edge : witnessing rites of passage in a therapeutic community / Elizabeth Baxter -- 4. Mutilations and restorations : cosmetic surgery in Christianity / Marcella Althaus-Reid -- 5. This body trans/forming me : indecencies in transgender/intersex bodies, body fascism and the Doctrine of the Incarnation / Martin Hugo Cordova Quero -- 6. Uses and abuses of power in the Shoah and the silent genocide of abused women / Victoria Rollins -- 7. Biblically slicing women / Janet Wooten -- 8. Will you slim for him or bake cakes for the Queen of Heaven? / Lisa Isherwood -- 9. Why women need to be ripped, shredded and sliced : political , philosophical and thealogical reflections / Paul Reid-Bowen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Women in Christianity; Body, human -- religious aspects -- Christianity; Self-mutilation.; Sex -- religious aspects -- Christianity