European-American Christian Women’s Theology and Thought


I. Formulating a Constructive Christian Sexual Ethic

Althaus-Reid, Marcella. Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power. New York: Crossroad, 1988.

Brown, Ann. Apology to Women: Christian Images of the Female Sex. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity, 1991.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Between the Sexes: Foundations for a Christian Ethics of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. “Gender and Christian Ethics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics. Ed. Robin Gill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 112–124.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. “Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Biblical Perspective.” Interpretation 49, no. 1 (1995) 5–16.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Women and Sexuality. New York: Paulist, 1992.

Callahan, Anne. Writing the Voice of Pleasure: Heterosexuality Without Women. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Coakley, Sarah, ed. Religion and the Body. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Cooey, Paula M. “The Redemption of the Body: Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Inherited Christian Doctrine.” In After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions. Ed. Paula M. Cooey, et al. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991.

Cooey, Paula M. Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Eisler, Riane. Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body. 1st ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

Farley, Margaret A. Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.

Farley, Margaret A. “Sexual Ethics.” In Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Vol. 5. Rev. ed. Ed. Warren Thomas Reich. New York: MacMillan, 1995, 2363–2375.

Fortune, Marie M. Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Gilson, Anne Bathurst. Eros Breaking Free: Interpreting Sexual Theo-Ethics. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1995.

Graham, Elaine L. Making the Difference: Gender, Personhood, and Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

Gudorf, Christine E. Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1994.

Gudorf, Christine E. “The Erosion of Sexual Dimorphism: Challenges to Religion and Religious Ethics.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69 (2001) 863–891.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Sexual Morality in the New Millennium.” In Ethical Dilemmas in the New Millennium I. Ed. Francis A. Eigo. Villanova, PA: Villanova University Press, 2000, 29–61.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Sexual Pleasure as Grace and Gift.” Other Side 34 (1998) 10–13.

Gudorf, Christine E. “The Social Construction of Sexuality: Implications for the Churches.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen M. Sands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 42–59.

Gudorf, Christine E., et al. “Sex and the Single Person: A Case Study.” In Ethics and World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies. Ed. Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine E. Gudorf. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999, 42–63.

Harrison, Beverly Wildung. “Free Choice: A Feminist Perspective.” Church and Society 71 (1981) 6–21.

Harrison, Beverly Wildung. “The Power of Anger in the Work of Love: Christian Ethics for Woman and Other Strangers.” In Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics. Ed. Carol S. Robb. Boston: Beacon, 1985, 3–21.

Harrison, Beverly Wildung, and Carter Heyward. “Pain and Pleasure: Avoiding the Confusion of Christian Tradition in Feminist Theory.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 148–173.

Heyward, Carter. Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation. New York: Pilgrim, 1992.

Heyward, Carter. “Sexual Ethics and the Church: A Response.” In Women, Religion and Sexuality: Studies of the Impact of Religious Teachings on Women. Ed. Jeanne Becher. Geneva: WCC, 1990, 260–263.

Heyward, Carter. Staying Power: Reflections on Gender, Justice, and Compassion. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1995.

Hunt, Mary E. “Beginning with Women.” Second Opinion 10 (1989) 72–79.

Hunt, Mary E. Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship. New York: Crossroad, 1991.

Hunt, Mary E. “An Invitation to Rethink Sexuality: A Christian Feminist Liberation Perspective.” In Aids Issues: Confronting the Challenge. Ed. David G. Hallman. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 213–232.

Hunt, Mary E. “Shifting Spiritual Authorities for Feminist Ethics.” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (1994) 267–273.

Hunt, Mary E. “Too Sexy for Words: The Changing Vocabulary of Religious Ethics.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen M. Sands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 155–166.

Hunt, Mary. “Transforming Moral Theology: A Feminist Ethical Challenge.” In Women: Invisible in Church and Theology. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Mary Collins. Edinburgh: Clark, 1985, 84–90.

Hurcombe, Linda, ed. Sex and God: Some Varieties of Women’s Religious Experience. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.

Isherwood, Lisa, ed. The Good News of the Body: Sexual Theology and Feminism. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Jung, Patricia Beattie. “Sexual Pleasure: A Roman Catholic Perspective on Women’s Delight.” Theology and Sexuality 12 (2000) 26–47.

Jung, Patricia Beattie, et al., eds. Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World’s Religions. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Law, Jane Marie, ed. Religious Reflections on the Human Body. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Lebacqz, Karen, and Ronald G. Barton. Sex in the Parish. Louisville, KY: Westminster/ John Knox, 1991.

McFague, Sallie. Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982.

Miles, Margaret Ruth. Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West. Boston: Beacon, 1989.

Miles, Margaret Ruth. Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality. New York: Crossroad, 1988.

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. “‘Also a Mother’: Beyond Family Values.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 12 (1996) 133–150.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey. Sensuous Spirituality: Out from Fundamentalism. New York: Crossroad, 1992.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey, ed. “No Easy Answers: Gender and Sexual Ethics for a New Age.” Witness 83 (2000) 5–22, 24–25.

Nelson, James B., and Sandra P. Longfellow, eds. Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1994.

O’Grady, Kathleen, et al., eds. Bodies, Lives, Voices: Gender in Theology. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998.

Pellauer, Mary. “The Moral Significance of Female Orgasm: Toward Sexual Ethics that Celebrate Women’s Sexuality.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 9 (1993) 161–182.

Ross, Susan A. “Extravagant Affections: Women’s Sexuality and Theological Anthropology.” In In the Embrace of God: Feminist Approaches to Theological Anthropology. Ed. Ann O’Hara Graff. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.

Rubin, Lillian B. Intimate Strangers: Men and Women Together. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. “Catholicism, Women, Body and Sexuality: A Response.” In Women, Religion and Sexuality: Studies on the Impact of Religious Teachings on Women. Ed. Jeanne Becher. Geneva: WCC, 1990, 221–232.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. New Woman, New Earth: Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1983.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, ed. Religion and Sexism: Images of Woman in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

Sands, Kathleen M. “Public, Pubic, and Private: Religion in Political Discourse.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen M. Sands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 60–90.

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York: Crossroad, 1983.

Spalding, Anne. “Being Part of ‘Right Relation.’” Feminist Theology 22 (1999) 43–65.

Streete, Gail Corrington. The Strange Woman: Power and Sex in the Bible. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1997.

Stuart, Elizabeth, and Adrian Thatcher, eds. Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996.

Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks. Sex, Race, and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

Tilley, Maureen A., and Susan A. Ross, eds. Broken and Whole: Essays on Religion and the Body. Annual Publication of the College Theology Society 39. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995.

Trible, Phyllis. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart, ed. After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Relations. Carlisle, England: Paternoster, 1993.

Webster, Alison R. Found Wanting: Women, Christianity and Sexuality. London: Cassell, 1995.

II. Family

Bounds, Elizabeth M. “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Feminism, Family Values, and the Division Between Public and Private.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 12 (1996) 111–126.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle. Family: A Christian Social Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

Cahill, Lisa Sowle, and Dietmar Mieth, eds. The Family. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995.

Carr, Anne E., and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds. Motherhood: Experience, Institution, Theology. Concilium, 206. Edinburgh: Clark, 1989.

Cooey, Paula M. Family, Freedom, and Faith: Building Community Today. 1st ed. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1996.

Eilts, Mitzi N. “Saving the Family: When Is the Covenant Broken?” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 444–450.

Farley, Margaret A. “The Church and the Family: An Ethical Task.” Horizons 10 (1983) 50–71.

Farley, Margaret A. “Family.” In The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought. Ed. J. Dwyer. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1994, 371–381.

Finger, Rita Halteman, ed. “Raising Christian Feminist Children.” Daughters of Sarah 16, September–October (1990) 3–28.

Gudorf, Christine E. Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1994.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Parenting, Mutual Love, and Sacrifice.” In Women’s Consciousness/Women’s Conscience: A Reader in Feminist Ethics. Ed. B. Andolsen, et al. Minneapolis: Winston, 1985.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Sacrificial and Parental Spiritualities.” In Religion, Feminism, and the Family. Ed. Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1996, 294–309.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the Family.” Horizons 22 (1995) 320–321.

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. “Faith, Family, and Feminism: Irreconcilable Differences?” Pastoral Psychology 46 (1997) 107–118.

Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. “Family: A Christian Social Perspective.” Interpretation 56 (2002) 118–120.

Purvis, Sally B. “A Common Love: Christian Feminist Ethics and the Family.” In Religion, Feminism and the Family. Ed. Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1996, 111–124.

Rubio, Julie H. A Christian Theology of Marriage and Family. New York: Paulist, 2003.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family. Boston: Beacon, 2000.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. “Church, Feminism, and Family.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen M. Sands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 93–103.

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, and Emilie M. Townes, eds. “Feminism and Family Values.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 12 (1996) 99–157.

III. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality

Brooten, Bernadette J. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Farley, Margaret A. “An Ethic for Same-Sex Relations.” In A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church. Ed. Robert Nugent. New York: Crossroad, 1983.

Heyward, Carter. Coming Out and Relational Empowerment: A Lesbian Feminist Theological Perspective. Work in Progress 38. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center, 1989.

Heyward, Carter. Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice. Ed. Ellen C. Davis. New York: Pilgrim, 1989.

Heyward, Carter. Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

Hoagland, Sarah Lucia. Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value. 1st ed. Palo Alto, CA: Institute of Lesbian Studies, 1988.

Hunt, Mary E. “Celibacy: The Case Against—Liberating Lesbian Nuns.” In Homosexuality and Religion and Philosophy. Ed. Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson. Studies in Homosexuality 12. New York: Garland, 1992, 204–210.

Hunt, Mary E. “Opposites Do Not Always Attract: How and Why Lesbian Women and Gay Men Diverge Religiously.” In Spirituality and Community: Diversity in Lesbian and Gay Experience. Ed. J. Michael Clark and Michael L. Stemmeler. Gay Men’s Issues in Religious Studies Series 5. Las Colinas, TX: Monument, 1994, 147–163.

Hunt, Mary E. “Out, and in the Church.” Witness 75 (1992) 35.

Mohin, Lilian, ed. An Intimacy of Equals: Lesbian Feminist Ethics. London: Onlywomen, 1996.

Rudy, Kathy. Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics. Boston: Beacon, 1997.

Stuart, Elizabeth, et al., eds. Religion is a Queer Thing: A Guide to the Christian Faith for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People. Washington, D. C.: Cassell, 1997.

IV. Marriage and Feminism

Farley, Margaret A. “Divorce and Remarriage: A Moral Perspective.” In Divorce and Remarriage: Religious and Psychological Perspectives. Ed. William P. Roberts. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1990, 107–127.

Farley, Margaret A. “Divorce, Remarriage, and Pastoral Practice.” In Moral Theology: Challenges for the Future. Ed. Charles E. Curran. New York: Paulist, 1990, 213–239.

Shivanandan, Mary. “Feminism and Marriage: A Reflection on Ephesians 5:21–33.” Diakonia 29 (1996) 5–22.

Thatcher, Adrian. “‘Crying Out for Discernment’–Premodern Marriage in Postmodern Times.” Theology and Sexuality 8 (1998) 73–95.

Thatcher, Adrian. “Marriage: Theology and Reality.” Feminist Theology 18 (1998) 124.

V. Reproductive Rights

Callahan, Sidney. “Abortion and the Sexual Agenda: A Case for Pro-Life Feminism.” In Abortion and Catholicism: The American Debate. Ed. Patricia Beattie Jung and Thomas A. Shannon. New York: Crossroad, 1988, 128–140.

Harrison, Beverly Wildung. Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion. Boston: Beacon, 1983.

Harrison, Beverly Wildung. “A Theology of Pro-Choice: A Feminist Perspective on Abortion.” In Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on Women, Religion and Social Change. Ed. Diana L. Eck and Devaki Jain. Philadelphia: New Society, 1987, 215–224.

Kennedy, Angela, ed. Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion. Dublin: Open Air, 1997.

Loades, Ann. “On Abortion: Some Feminist and Theological Reflections.” In Faithfulness and Fortitude: In Conversation with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas. Ed. Mark Thiessen Nation and Samuel Wells. Edinburgh: Clark, 2000, 233–255.

Meyers, Diana. “The Rush to Motherhood–Pronatalist Discourse and Women’s Autonomy.” Signs 26 (2001) 735–774.

Morgan, Lynn M., and Meredith W. Michaels, eds. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Petchesky, Rosalind P. Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom. Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990.

Robb, Carol S. “Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 40 (1985) 69–72.

Soley, Ginny Earnest. “A Christian Feminist Perspective on Abortion: To Preserve and Protect Life.” In The Rise of Christian Conscience: The Emergence of a Dramatic Renewal Movement in the Church Today. Ed. Jim Wallis. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987, 88–94.

VI. Violence

Adams, Carol J. “Towards a Feminist Theology of Religion and the State.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 15–35.

Bentley, Sarah. “Bringing Justice Home: The Challenge of the Battered Women’s Movement for Christian Social Ethics.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 151–171.

Bloomquist, Karen L. “Sexual Violence: Patriarchy’s Offense and Defense.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 62–69.

Bohn, Carole R. “Dominion to Rule: The Roots and Consequences of a Theology of Ownership.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne
Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 105–116.

Bray, Rosemary L. “Taking Sides Against Ourselves.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 361–367.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. “And a Little Child Will Lead Us: Christology and Child Abuse.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 42–61.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. “Ending Innocence and Nurturing Willfulness.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 71–84.

Brock, Rita Nakashima. “Politicians, Pastors, and Pimps: Christianity and Prostitution Policies.” In God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. Ed. Kathleen M. Sands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 245–261.

Brock, Rita Nakashima, and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

Brock, Rita Nakashima, and Rebecca Ann Parker. Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us. Boston: Beacon, 2001.

Brown, Joanne Carlson. “Because of the Angels: Sexual Violence and Abuse.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 3–10.

Brown, Joanne Carlson, and Rebecca Parker. “For God So Loved the World?” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 36–59.

Bussert, Joy M. K. Battered Women: From a Theology of Suffering to an Ethic of Empowerment. New York: Kutztown, 1986.

Cooper-White, Pamela. The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church’s Response. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Elizondo, Felisa. “Violence Against Women: Strategies of Resistance and Sources of Healing in Christianity.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 99–108.

Ellison, Marvin M., and Kristina B. Hewey. “Hope Lies in ‘The Struggle Against It’: Co-teaching a Seminary Course on Domestic Violence and Theology.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 479–501.

Engel, Mary Potter. “Evil, Sin, and Violation of the Vulnerable.” In Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside. Ed. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Mary Potter Engel. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990, 152–164.

Engel, Mary Potter. “Historical Theology and Violence Against Women: Unearthing a Popular Tradition of Just Battery.” In Violence against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 242–261.

Fischer, Irmgard. “‘Go and Suffer Oppression!’ Said God’s Messenger to Hagar.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 75–82.

Fortune, Marie M. “Clergy Misconduct: Sexual Abuse in the Ministerial Relationship.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 109–118.

Fortune, Marie M. “Is Nothing Sacred? The Betrayal of the Ministerial or Teaching Relationship.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 351–360.

Fortune, Marie M. Is Nothing Sacred? When Sex Invades the Pastoral Relationship. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.

Fortune, Marie M. “Justice Making in the Aftermath of Woman Battering.” In Violence in the Family: A Workshop for Clergy and Other Helpers. Ed. Marie Fortune. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim, 1991.

Fortune, Marie M. “Responding to Clergy Sexual Abuse: An Interview.” Witness 75 (1992) 15–19.

Fortune, Marie M. Sexual Violence: The Unmentionable Sin. New York: Pilgrim, 1983.

Gudorf, Christine E. “Life Without Anchors: Sex, Exchange, and Human Rights in a Postmodern World.” Journal of Religious Ethics 26 (1998) 295–303.

Hall, Terese. “Spiritual Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adult Christian Women.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 23 (1995) 129–134.

Heggen, Carolyn Holderread. Sexual Abuse in Christian Homes and Churches. Scottdale, PA: Herald, 1993.

Hester, Marianne, et al., eds. Women, Violence and Male Power: Feminist Activism, Research, and Practice. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1996.

Hunt, Mary E. “Change or Be Changed: Roman Catholicism and Violence.” Feminist Theology 12 (1996) 43–60.

Hunt, Mary E. “Theological Pornography: From Corporate to Communal Ethics.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 62–69.

Imbens, Annie, and Ineke Jonker. Christianity and Incest. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

Johnson, John M., and Denise M. Bondurant. “Revisiting the 1982 Church Response Survey.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 422–427.

Kroeger, Catherine Clark. “Let’s Look Again at the Biblical Concept of Submission.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 135–140.

Lewis, Nantawan Boonprasat, and Marie M. Fortune, eds. Remembering Conquest: Feminist/Womanist Perspectives on Religion, Colonization, and Sexual Violence. New York: Haworth Pastoral, 1999.

Mananzan, Mary John. “Feminine Socialization: Women as Victims and Collaborators.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 144–152.

Manlowe, Jennifer L. Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion. New York: New York University Press, 1995.

Manlowe, Jennifer L. “Seduced by Faith: Sexual Traumas and Their Embodied Effects.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 328–338.

Matter, E. Ann. “Ecclesiastical Violence: Witches and Heretics.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 83–90.

Moore, Allison Mauel. “Moral Agency of Women in a Battered Women’s Shelter.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 172–184.

Ormerod, Neil, and Thea Ormerod. When Ministers Sin: Sexual Abuse in the Churches. Alexandria, Australia: Millennium, 1995.

Patrick, Anne E. “Sexual Harassment: A Christian Ethical Response.” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 19 (1999) 371–376.

Pellauer, Mary. “Augustine on Rape: One Chapter in the Theological Tradition.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 207–241.

Pellauer, Mary. “Resources for Ritual and Recuperation.” In Sexual Assault and Abuse. Ed. Mary Pellauer. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.

Peterson-Iyer, Karen. “Prostitution: A Feminist Ethical Analysis.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 14 (1998) 19–44.

Procter-Smith, Marjorie. “‘Reorganizing Victimization’: The Intersection Between Liturgy and Domestic Violence.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 428–443.

Procter-Smith, Marjorie. “The Whole Loaf: Holy Communion and Survival.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 464–478.

Redmond, Sheila A. “Christian ‘Virtues’ and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 70–88.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford. “The Western Religious Tradition and Violence Against Women in the Home.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 31–41.

Schiele, Beatrix. “Violence and Justice.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 22–33.

Smith, Andy. “Born Again, Free from Sin?: Sexual Violence in Evangelical Communities.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 339–350.

Smith, Andy. “Christian Conquest and the Sexual Colonization of Native Women.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 377–403.

Stenzel, Eileen J. “Maria Goretti: Rape and the Politics of Sainthood.” In Violence Against Women. Ed. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and M. Shawn Copeland. Concilium, 1994, no. 1. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994, 91–98.

Taves, Ann. “The Power to See and the Power to Name: American Church History and the Problem of Domestic Violence.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 262–278.

Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks. “Every Two Minutes: Battered Women and Feminist Interpretation.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. Ed. Letty M. Russell. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1985.

Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

Young, Kathleen Zuanich. “The Imperishable Virginity of Saint Maria Goretti.” In Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook. Ed. Carol J. Adams and Marie M. Fortune. New York: Continuum, 1995, 279–286.

Young-Eisendrath, Polly, and Demaris Wehr. “The Fallacy of Individualism and Reasonable Violence Against Women.” In Christianity, Patriarchy, and Abuse: A Feminist Critique. Ed. Joanne Carlson Brown and Carole R. Bohn. New York: Pilgrim, 1989, 117–138.

VII. Important Theorists from Related Disciplines

Abramson, Paul R., and Steven D. Pinkerton. With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Addelson, Kathryn Pyne. Impure Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy, Feminism, and Ethics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

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