Many of these literature reviews were assembled by the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project research team during the planning phase of our project. New reviews continue to be added by our current researchers. We welcome suggestions for other material to inlculde in these pages. (THESE PAGES ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.)
Slavery:
- Drew Gilpin Faust. “‘Without Plot or Compass:’ Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South.” In Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 250–260. (CLICK HERE)
- Herbert G. Gutman. “Marital and Sexual Norms Among Slave Women.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 545–557. (CLICK HERE)
- Darlene Clark Hine. “ Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex.” In Black Women in American History. Vol 2. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1990, 657–666. First published in The Western Journal of Black Studies 3 (1979) 123–127. (CLICK HERE)
- Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. “Religion, Gender, and Identity: Black Methodist Women in a Slave Society, 1770–1810.” In Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past. Ed. Patricia Morton. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998, 202–226. (CLICK HERE)
- Nell Irvin Painter. Soul Murder and Slavery. Charles Edmondson Historical Lecture Series, No. 15. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1995. (CLICK HERE)
- Dorothy Roberts. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage, 1997. (CLICK HERE)
Christianity:
- Lisa Sowle Cahill. Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (CLICK HERE)
- Kelly Brown Douglas. Sexuality and the Black Church. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1999. (CLICK HERE)
- Michael Eric Dyson. “When you Divide Body and Soul Problems Multiply: The Black Church and Sex.” In Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality. Ed. Rudolph Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, 308–326. (CLICK HERE)
- Beverly Wildung Harrison. Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics. Ed. Carol S. Robb. Boston: Beacon, 1985. (CLICK HERE)
- Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz. Mujerista Theology. Orbis: Maryknoll, 1996. (CLICK HERE)
- Irene Monroe. “The Aché Sisters: Discovering the Power of the Erotic in Ritual.” In Women at Worship: Interpretations of North American Diversity. Ed. Marjorie Proctor-Smith and Janet R. Walton. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1993, 127-135.
- Kathleen Sands. “Public, Pubic, and Private: Religion in Political Discourse.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen Sands. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. (CLICK HERE)
Islam:
- Elizabeth W. Fernea. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey. New York: Doubleday, 1998. (CLICK HERE)
The following three books are reviewed together:
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- Asma Gull Hasan. American Muslims: The New Generation. New York and London: Continuum, 2000.
- Shahnaz Khan. Muslim Women: Crafting a North American Identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
- Aminah Beverly McCloud. African American Islam. New York and London: Routledge, 1995.
Judaism:
- Rachel Adler. Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
- Judith Hauptman. Rereading the Rabbis: Woman’s Voice. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
- Judith Romney Wegner. Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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