TY  - BOOK
AU  - Althaus-Reid, Marcella,
AU  - Isherwood, Lisa,
TI  - Controversies in body theology
T2  - Controversies in contextual theology
SN  - 9780334041573 (pbk.)
U1  - 233.5/CON 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - SCM Press
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - Body, human
KW  - religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Self-mutilation
KW  - Sex
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -