Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion articles from September 2007

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion archives from September 2007

Editors' introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2007... One of the fundamental principles of feminist activism and scholarship is to take wo/men seriously. This basic commitment undergirds practices of feminist inquiry that listen carefully, dig deep, and question assertions of "the way things...

Reflections on the "Teaching for Change" conference: the business of feminist teaching.(Roundtable Discussion: Teaching for Change)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... A couple days into the FSR, Inc., "Teaching for Change: Creating Knowledge, Transforming Institutions," conference, someone said, "This is like feminist summer camp." The group of us sitting together laughed, and said that we needed T-shirts...

Sex and the (Tent) City.(Roundtable Discussion: Teaching for Change)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... As I reflect on the impact of the "Teaching for Change" conference on my own pedagogy, I'm filled with a profound sense of gratitude. During what I think is fair to call a "historic" gathering of feminists and womanists from around the world,...

Not a luxury, but a necessity: toward transgressive teaching.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... I still remember the excitement I felt two years ago about the prospect of participating in the "Teaching for Change" conference. I was excited about the conference; as a "brand-new," struggling teacher, I hoped and expected that the...

A reflection on the "Teaching for Change" conference and its challenges in my workplace.(Roundtable Discussion: Teaching for Change)
September 22, 2007... My Situation Since 1995, I have worked as a Humanities scholar at the University of Western Sydney. I am trained as a sociologist, specifically a feminist sociologist of religion, but my research interests cover feminist theology, women...

Wanting more change: a few reflections from a secular menace.(Roundtable Discussion: Teaching for Change)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... It was a delight to be invited to participate in the 2005 conference "Teaching for Change," which celebrated twenty years of the journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (JFSR). I anticipated that the gathering would serve as a unique and...

Work is not the only problem: how the concept of family contributes to the work-family dilemma.(Roundtable Discussion: GOT LIFE? FINDING BALANCE AND MAKING BOUNDARIES IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... This brief essay is based on a paper I presented as part of the special topics forum "Got Life? Finding Balance and Making Boundaries in the Academy" at the November 2005 American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting in Philadelphia. I gave the...

For a graduate student, parenting is political.(Roundtable Discussion: GOT LIFE? FINDING BALANCE IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... At the time of the "Got Life?" panel, I was a PhD student on the academic job market and the American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference is the place for interviews. I had to attend the AAR. Doing so meant that as a parent, I would lose an...

My experience as artist and adjunct.(Roundtable Discussion: GOT LIFE? FINDING BALANCE IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... I was grateful to the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession for inviting me to be a part of the 2005 "Got Life?" panel, especially given that I am not a woman. Being a gay white man, I carry my own set of privileges and...

Social-justice activism in the academic industrial complex.(Roundtable Discussion: GOT LIFE? FINDING BALANCE IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... The theme of these "Got Life?" essays begs the question: How did "having a life" become constructed as something at odds with having a job in academia? Why has being a good scholar and academic come to mean that one should be working...

Copestones for life.(Roundtable Discussion: GOT LIFE? FINDING BALANCE IN THE ACADEMY)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... I have spent thirty years in higher education and ministry. In the first fifteen, I worked far too many hours, answering to far too many demands, and letting the priorities of people other than myself guide my work. In the second half of my...

Living it out: ethical challenges confronting the Roman Catholic women's ordination movement in the twenty-first century.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... For more than thirty years, I have advocated the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church. I attended the first conference on Catholic women's ordination in Detroit in 1975. Throughout the 1980s, I immersed myself in...

Christian origins, egalitarianism, and Utopia.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... In recent years, several scholars have challenged the widely held hypothesis that the historical Jesus and the kingdom of God movement were egalitarian, but that as early as the time of Paul the early church began conforming to the...

A communion of little saints: nineteenth-century American child hagiographies.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2007... The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of child hagiographies in the form of memoirs, written mostly by evangelical Protestant women. Immensely popular at the time, the memoirs were used by religious tract societies and Sunday...

Women in the menstruation huts: variations in preserving purification customs among ethiopian immigrants.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... This article presents a unique case of activism among women immigrants from Ethiopia to Israel, in their attempt to preserve the custom of the menstruation huts (margam gojos) in their new social reality. In Ethiopia, Jewish women retire to a...

Archaeologists and goddess feminists at Catalhoyuk: an experiment in multivocality.(Essay)
September 22, 2007... The high-profile Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey--made famous by James Mellaart in the 1960s-has become an increasingly contested space in recent years, its meanings being discussed not only among scientists but also within...

Mehitzah.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... It's long and unfamiliar, the road of returning to myself. --Angela Hernandez Nunez I work at making it real, asphalt with concrete curbs. sometimes I imagine my great-grandparents standing by the side. His face...

Hail Mary.(In a Different Voice)(Poem)
September 22, 2007... Hail Mary Full of grace The Lord and Lady Sophia are with thee Blessed art thou amongst women and Blessed are the fruit of thy womb and mine Holy Mary Mother and Creatrix of the universe Pray for its ...

More than an encore.(Roundtable Discussion: TEACHING FOR CHANGE)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2007... Twenty years of publishing a journal is reason to celebrate and time to contemplate an encore. The Board of Directors of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., the nonprofit organization that publishes the Journal of Feminist...

Reflections on and the impact of the "Teaching for Change" conference.(Roundtable Discussion: TEACHING FOR CHANGE)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... The 2005 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc., conference "Teaching for Change" gave me the opportunity to learn from renowned feminist scholars in theology and religious studies. Reflections on methodologies and pedagogies, which...

Conflict in the heart of the academy: individual change and institutional power.(Roundtable Discussion: TEACHING FOR CHANGE)
September 22, 2007... For me, the highlights of the 2005 conference "Teaching for Change: Creating Knowledge, Transforming Institutions"--aside from the joyful camaraderie and exuberance of some wonderful women--centered on the creative ideas generated for...