A Response to Marcella Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics

Feminist Theology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-181

  Sands, Kathleen M ^a  

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EID: 84996153844     PISSN: 09667350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096673500301100207     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Kathleen Sands, ‘Uses of the Theo(a)logian: Sex and Theodicy in Religious Feminism’, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 8.1 (1992), pp. 7-33.
2. This trend, which began in the last half of the 1980s, was based on an over interpretation of a short, sparkling essay by Audre Lorde, called ‘Uses of the Erotic’ in Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), pp. 53-59. Examples of feminist and sexual theologies deploying this idealistic sense of eros include: Rita Nakashima Brock, Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power (New York: Crossroad, 1988); Carol Christ, ‘In Praise of Aphrodite: Sexuality as Sacred’, in Elizabeth Dodson Gray (ed.), Sacred Dimensions of Women's Experience (Wellesley, MA: Roundtable Press, 1988), pp. 220-27; Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989); Anne Bathurst Gilson, Eros Breaking Free: Interpreting Sexual Theo-Ethics (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1995). The same ideal of eros appears in prominent sexual theologies. See e.g., James Nelson, Body Theology (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992); Marvin Ellison, Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996).
3. Gayle Rubin, ‘Thinking Sex: Notes Toward a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’, in Carole Vance (ed.) Pleasure and Danger (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 267-319.
4. Heyward, Touching Our Strength, pp. 104-108.
5. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, 22 August 1996 (USA Public Law 104-193).
6. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, p.1
7. For an extremely insightful discussion, see Tracy West, ‘The Policing of Poor Black Women's Sexual Reproduction’, in K. Sands (ed.), God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 135-54.