Women's bodies as battlefield : Christian theology and the global war on women

Women's bodies as battlefield : Christian theology and the global war on women / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite.

This book demonstrates that the 'war on women' is not a metaphor but rather a global pandemic of violence against women that constitutes an actual war with female bodies serving as places of battle. The author shows that, of the many societal structures that enable both the violence of lit...

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Main Author: Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women in Christianity.
Women > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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Table of Contents:
  • Injuring in war
  • Injuring in the war on women
  • War and the war on women: religious and philosophical roots
  • War and the war on women: Christian theological sources
  • The heroic fictions of war
  • The erotic fictions of the war on women
  • Just war and the war on women
  • Peace and the war on women
  • Toward an embodied theology of just peace
  • Conclusion: "Can I get a witness?"

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