Women's Bodies as Battlefields

Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women. War itself has come to resemble the war on women, and thus strategies to end the war on women, supported by new Christian theological interpretations, will also help end today's endless wars.

The war on women is an international and perennial issue with increasing focus, in which Thistlethwaite has become a significant public theological figure with a high profile media presence Incorporates religion, history, theory, literature, art, and philosophy, dealing with major themes of interest for a wide range of scholars and informed general readers Rape and violence against women unfortunately remains a major issue in every society and institution, making this book ever more urgent

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Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is a Professor of Theology and former President of Chicago Theological Seminary. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ for over 30 years, she has authored and edited numerous works including Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World, Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White, Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside (co-editor) and Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Alternatives to War (co-editor). Dr. Thistlethwaite is a frequent media commentator on religion and public events. She is a Fellow of the Center for American Progress Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative, and serves as a trustee of Faith in Public Life, and the Interfaith Youth Core.

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Introduction
1: Injuring: Bodies and Battlefields
2: Injuring: Women's Bodies in the War on Women
3: The History of Theologies of the Body: Sexism and Militarism
4: Looking Away: The Heroic Fiction of War
5: Looking Away: The Erotic Fiction of the War on Women
6: Just War: Authorizing the Injuries
7: Just War: Conducting the Injuries
8: Just Peace: Practice Without Embodiment
9: Just Peace: Bodies at the Center
10: Toward An Embodied Theology of Peace