Althaus-Reid, Marcella ed Isherwood, Lisa ed. text xxu London, UK SCM Press 2008 monographic eng

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xi, 250 p. ; pbk ; 22 cm. 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. edited by Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood. Includes bibliographical references and index. Women in Christianity Body, human religious aspects Christianity Self-mutilation Sex religious aspects Christianity 233.5/CON 9780334041573 (pbk.) NEMB 120802 20120802214505.0