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998 _bEW
245 _aControversies in body theology /
_cedited by Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood.
260 _aLondon, UK :
_bSCM Press,
_c2008.
300 _axi, 250 p. ;
_bpbk ;
_c22 cm.
490 _aControversies in contextual theology.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction ; 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.
650 _aWomen in Christianity.
650 _aBody, human
_xreligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 _aSelf-mutilation.
650 _aSex
_xreligious aspects
_xChristianity.
700 _aAlthaus-Reid, Marcella,
_eed
700 _aIsherwood, Lisa,
_eed.
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