Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on WomenChristian 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. |
Contents
Injuring in the War on Women | 31 |
Religious and Philosophical Roots | 53 |
Christian Theological Sources | 69 |
The Heroic Fictions of War | 83 |
The Erotic Fictions of the War on Women 103 | 102 |
Just War and the War on Women | 127 |
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Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite No preview available - 2015 |
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