After Eden

Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation

By: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen (Editor)

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Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this substantial volume offers a wide-ranging examination, from a Christian perspective, of the many complexities surrounding gender relations, showing how they have changed and how they still need to change if we are to be the men and women God meant us to be. No other book treats the systemic embedding of gender issues in all areas of life.

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Preface	p. xiv
Living between the Times: Bad News and Good News about Gender Relations	p. 1
Good News and Bad in the Biblical Drama	p. 2
Good News and Bad in Contemporary Gender Relations	p. 4
Gender Relations and the Biblical Drama	p. 6
Creation, Fall, and Gender Relations	p. 7
The Redeemer and Gender Reconciliation	p. 8
Gender Relations in the Early Church	p. 10
The Continuing Call to Mutuality	p. 11
Looking Ahead	p. 13
Lights at the End of the Tunnel	p. 14
Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender Relations
Feminism and Christian Vision: Lessons from the Past	p. 19
How We Define Feminism	p. 21
Some Further Theological Reflections	p. 25
Roots of Contemporary Feminism -- The "First Wave"	p. 28
Liberal Thought	p. 29
Evangelical Reform: A Relational Expression of Feminism	p. 31
The Socialist Vision	p. 37
Toward a Dynamic Concept of Gender Relations	p. 40
Western Feminism since the 1960s: Lessons from the Present	p. 44
Liberal Feminism Revisited	p. 45
Marxist Feminism: A Class-Based Analysis	p. 49
Women as Producers and Reprodurers	p. 50
The Family under Capitalism	p. 51
Housework: Socialized or Home-Waged?	p. 52
The "Comparable Worth" Campaign	p. 54
Radical Feminism: A Form of Contemporary Relational Feminism	p. 55
The Radical Feminist Retrieval of Mothering	p. 57
The Radical Feminist Rejection of Femininity and the Retrieval of Sexuality	p. 59
Some Theological Observations	p. 62
Recent Developments: Socialist and Postmodern Feminism	p. 63
Postmodern Feminism: The Challenge of Deconstructionism	p. 65
What Price Pluralism? Problems and New Possibilities	p. 67
A Cross-Cultural Critique of Western Feminism	p. 70
Challenges to White Western Feminism	p. 71
Autonomy, Development, and Class	p. 72
Social Solidarity: Within the Family, with Women, and with Men	p. 79
Emancipation from Tradition	p. 89
The Decentering of Feminism	p. 94
The Advantage: A New Humility	p. 95
The Disadvantage: Loss of Moral Grounding for the Feminist Project	p. 98
A Christian Perspective on Difference	p. 100
Toward a Christian Feminist Vision That Embraces Women and Men	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 112
Theological and Rhetorical Perspectives on Gender Relations
Reformed Christianity and Feminism: Collision or Correlation?	p. 117
Definitions and Restrictions of Scope	p. 119
Basic Approaches to Christian Life and Thought	p. 123
The Affirmation of World-Formative Christianity	p. 123
The Importance of Experience for Christian Life and Thought	p. 126
The Importance of Interpreting and Using Scripture according to Theological/Ethical Norms	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 145
God, Humanity, and the World in Reformed and Feminist Perspectives	p. 147
God	p. 147
The Feminist Critique of Traditional God-Language	p. 149
Imaging God: Feminist Alternatives	p. 153
God-Language: A Reformed Response	p. 156
Humanity and the World	p. 164
The Critique of Dualism and the Affirmation of Wholism	p. 165
The Fallenness of Humanity and the World	p. 169
Equality and Inequality of Women and Men	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 182
Gender Relations and Narrative in a Reformed Church Setting	p. 184
The Importance of Narrative for Gender Relations	p. 185
The Creation Story as a Fundamental and Rhetorical Narrative	p. 188
How Narrative Shapes Religious Experience	p. 191
A Story of Gender Relations	p. 199
An Alternative Story of Creational Norms for Gender Relations	p. 209
Evaluation of the Creation Stories	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 220
The Cultural Construction of Gender Relations
A Critical Theory of Gender Relations	p. 225
Sex-Role Theory: An Overview	p. 226
Popular Definitions of "Masculinity" and "Femininity"	p. 226
A Critique of These Definitions	p. 227
Critical Theory as an Alternative to Sex-Role Theory: An Overview	p. 233
Description	p. 233
How Hegemony Works	p. 235
Human Agency and Structural Constraints	p. 237
How Sets of Social Relations Are Connected	p. 239
Critical Theory and Gender Relations	p. 240
Heterogeneity	p. 241
Domination/Subordination	p. 241
Human Agency	p. 248
Application of Critical Theory: "Masculinity" and "Femininity" Revisited	p. 249
Hegemonic Masculinity	p. 249
Privileged Femininity	p. 254
Application of Theory: Continuing the Game of Rope Tug	p. 257
Challenging the Game	p. 257
Reactions to Challenges	p. 258
Using the Body to Endorse Meanings about Gender	p. 268
Constructing the Female Body: Thin Is In	p. 269
Being Thin Is No Sin	p. 269
Pathogenic Weight Control Behaviors	p. 271
A Historical Perspective	p. 273
Layers of Meaning of Slimness	p. 276
Challenging the Norm: Body Politics	p. 282
Constructing the Male Body: Big, Strong, and Aggressive	p. 285
The "Ideal" Male Body	p. 285
A Historical Perspective	p. 287
"Naturalizing" Superiority	p. 290
Using Sport to Endorse Hegemonic Masculinity	p. 293
At the Individual Level	p. 293
At the Societal Level	p. 295
Whatever Happened to the Fig Leaf? Gender Relations and Dress	p. 299
Defining the Fashion System	p. 301
Fashion Trends in Western Culture: A Brief History	p. 305
Pre-fashion	p. 305
The Emergence of Fashion	p. 306
The Democratization of Fashion	p. 313
Twentieth-Century Fashion	p. 327
The Tyranny of Physical Perfection	p. 332
The Complicity of the Church	p. 337
Points of Resistance to the Tyranny of Fashion	p. 338
Fashioning the Future	p. 339
How Shall We Speak? Language and Gender Relations	p. 340
Action through Language	p. 342
How Naming and Defining Shape Gender Relations	p. 345
Defining "Human Being"	p. 345
Defining "Woman" and "Man"	p. 348
Reclaiming Humanity for Women	p. 351
How the Silencing of Female Experience Shapes Gender Relations	p. 357
Direct Silencing of Women's Voices	p. 357
Indirect Silencing of Women's Voices	p. 362
Speaking with Respect	p. 384
Social Institutions and Gender Relations
Private versus Public Life: A Case for Degendering	p. 389
Late Twentieth-Century Feminism and the Public/Private Dichotomy	p. 391
New Voices in the Debate: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Feminism	p. 395
Psychoanalytic Feminism: A Challenge to Freud	p. 395
Epistemology and Ethics: Concerns of Philosophical Feminism	p. 399
Feminist Theological Critiques of the Public/Private Split	p. 407
Creation, Sin, and the Feminization of Agapic Love	p. 409
The Call to Mutuality in All Spheres of Life	p. 412
Conclusion	p. 414
Family Justice and Societal Nurturance: Reintegrating Public and Private Domains	p. 416
Giving Women the Privacy They Need	p. 417
Justice in Philosophical and Biblical Perspectives	p. 421
Distributive Justice and Gender Relations	p. 423
Justice in Biblical Perspective	p. 425
Applying Biblical Justice to Family and Gender Relations	p. 426
Restoring Justice in the Family	p. 429
Justice as a Necessary Condition of Care	p. 430
Making the Public Realm a Sphere of Nurturance	p. 437
The Warrior versus the Nurturer	p. 437
The Limits and Potential of Maternal Thinking	p. 439
Attaining Concrete Justice for the Family	p. 444
Bringing Nurturance into the Public Sphere	p. 446
Toward a New Architecture of Gender	p. 447
Conclusion	p. 451
Case Studies from India and Egypt in Class, Gender, and Surviva	p. 452
The Divergent Lives of Men and Women	p. 456
In Narsapur	p. 456
In Cairo	p. 461
The "Domestication" of Women	p. 465
Individuality and Cooperation in the Family	p. 467
The Ideology of the "Housewife"	p. 471
Privileged Women and the Ideology of the Housewife	p. 473
Lower-Class Women and the Ideology of the Housewife	p. 483
Life Strategies	p. 489
American Women and Gender Strategies	p. 489
Women in Egyptian Factories	p. 491
Mahila Mandel of Bombay	p. 493
The Veiled Women of Cairo	p. 494
Some Christian Observations	p. 497
Is Someone in the Kitchen with Dinah? Gender and Domestic Work	p. 503
Domestic Work in Historical Perspective	p. 505
The Nature of Contemporary Domestic Work	p. 514
Men and Domestic Work	p. 519
Common Perceptions about men and Domestic Work	p. 520
Men's Agency and Domestic Work	p. 523
Women and Domestic Work	p. 524
Domestic Work from the Viewpoint of Critical Theory	p. 528
Possibilities for Change	p. 529
Pink, White, and Blue Collars: Gender and Waged Work	p. 534
Individually Oriented Explanations: Sex-Role Socialization Theory and Human Capital Theory	p. 537
A Critique of These Theories	p. 538
Structural Approaches	p. 542
The Marxist Theory	p. 542
The Organizational Approach	p. 543
The Approach of Critical Theory: The Pervasiveness of Gender	p. 547
Gendered Structure	p. 548
Gendered Fobs	p. 550
Gendered Activities	p. 550
The Gendered Workplace	p. 553
Human Agency: Challenging, Resisting, Coping, and Reconstructing	p. 563
Possibilities for Change	p. 567
Conclusion
Still Living between the Times: Realism and Hope about Gender Relations	p. 577
"I'm Not a Feminist, But .."	p. 578
Liberal Feminism Revisited	p. 581
Christians as "Closet Liberal Feminists"	p. 581
Attractions and Hazards of Contemporary Liberal Feminism	p. 584
Relational Feminism Revisited	p. 586
European Feminism: A Better Brand?	p. 588
The Limitations of European Relational Feminism	p. 590
A Third Way?	p. 594
Socialist Feminism Revisited	p. 594
Beyond Critical Theory to Biblical Shalom	p. 597
Final Thoughts	p. 600
Bibliography	p. 601
Index	p. 647
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