Thealogy and Embodiment

Download or read book Thealogy and Embodiment written by Melissa Raphael and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Thealogy and Embodiment' both analyses and contributes to spiritural feminism's postmodern construction of the female body as a metaphor and medium of divine generativity. Addressing religious studies and women's studies students and all those interested in contemporary spirituality, Raphael counters reformist feminism's recurrent criticism of goddess feminism as naively essentialist and sub-political. She presents spiritual feminism as a set of religio-political manoeuvres that powerfully resist such patriarchal degradations of female/natural generativity as environmental destruction, weight-reducing diets, and menstrual taboos.