Making the Difference
Gender, Personhood and Theology
Published on 1. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-264-67346-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the context of issues such as inclusive language and the priestly ministry of women, Elaine Graham examines assumptions underlying questions of gender in human relations and culture, the extent of differences between women and men, and how gender differences are constructed. This book bridges the gap between theology and the social sciences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-264-67346-2 (9780264673462)
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E-Book
10/2016
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€133.99
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Content
Part 1 Gender issues: what is gender?; gender and the churches. Part 2 Gender disciplines: anthropology - gender, nature and culture; biology - sex, gender and science; psychoanalysis - gender, subjectivity and knowledge. Part 3 Gender themes: bodies - history, epistemology and practice; ideas of nature; the challenge of difference; knowledge - feminist epistemologies and philosophies of science; making the difference - towards a theology of gender.