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Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Tradition
Religion and Sexism Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Tradition Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether (Editor) These essays, written specifically for this volume, attempt to fill a growing need for a more exact idea of the role of religion, specifically in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, in shaping the traditional cultural images that have degraded and suppressed women. — Religion and Sexism provides, in the compass of a single work, a glimpse of... more » the history of the relationship of patriarchal religion to feminine imagery and to the actual psychic and social self-images of women.
The authors of these essays are scholars in the particular areas of historical theology in which they write.« less