The Power of Erotic Celibacy: Queering Heterosexuality

by Lisa Isherwood

Overview

This title considers various issues regarding celibacy and Christianity including the following: how the female body is used to underpin exploitative social systems, how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body, how women have used celibacy to subvert the social order, how radical incarnationalism and queer theory create new challenges to traditional understandings of celibacy, how being erotic and celibate may manifest in social, sexual and political ways. It also explores how being erotically celibate challenges patriarchal society and opens up new theological understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567082770
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/10/2006
Series:	Queering Theology Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Lisa Isherwood is Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies and Director of Theology at the University of Winchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction


Chapter 1 The Body Social and the Divine Body









Chapter 2 Queering the Body of Christ




Chapter 3 Celibacy: The Hidden History









Chapter 4 True Love Waits




Chapter 5 The Power of the Erotic






Chapter 6 Erotic Celibacy: The Power of Queer Revolutions

Editorial Reviews

'This is one of those books that, after you have read it, you will come back to it and re-read it again and again...it is an important book, written with clarity and even humour, which will be crucial for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduates in the complex area of theology and sexuality. It is unique in the genre and highly recommended.' Marcella M. Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh, Expository Times, 2007 --Sanford Lakoff "Expository Times "

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