Being Feminist, Being Christian

ALLYSON JULÉ is Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. BETTINA TATE PEDERSEN is Associate Professor of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA.

• Preface; M. Hancock Introduction; A.Julé & B.T.Pedersen Feminism, Faith, and the Construction of Gender: Cyborg Christianity; C.Noble Feminism and Growing Up Evangelical; B.T.Pedersen Growing Up Catholic and Being a Feminist Linguist; A.Julé Feminism, Faith, and Mothering; L.Beail Feminism and the Pulpit: Women Preachers and Mystics of the Word; C.Blessing Two Women Speaking 'Woman': The Strategic Essentialism of Luce Irigaray and Pheobe Palmer; D.LeClerc Irigaray and de Beauvoir: Being the Object; E.Powell Nascent Christian Feminism in Medieval and Early Britain; H.F.Nelson Being a Christian Woman; L.Winner

"Jule and Pedersen have assembled an impressive and stimulating array of essays - from the autobiographical to the historical, from the pedagogical to the philosophical, from the theological to the mystical, from the familial to the biblical - that test and probe the fluid boundaries of Christian faith and feminist consciousness. The contributors to this powerful collection neither say nor sound 'the same,' but their voices all together rise in chorus to celebrate the vibrant possibility of being feminist and being Christian." - Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University "This collection of essays deepens the relatively unexplored connection between feminism and Christianity in a variety of academic fields, including biblical studies, history, linguistics, literature, political science, and theology. The tenor of the volume emerges from the integration of personal experience with academic expertise." - Priscilla Pope-Levison, Seattle Pacific University