Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil / by Emilie M. Townes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Townes, Emilie Maureen, 1955-

Series:

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Communication.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Sex.

Race.

Religion.

Sociology of Religion.

Media and Communication.

Cultural Studies.

Gender Studies.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of Religion.

Media and Communication.

Cultural Studies.

Gender Studies.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

Contents:

The womanist dancing mind : cavorting with culture and evil

Sites of memory : proceedings too terrible to relate

Vanishing into limbo : the moral dilemma of identity as property and commodity

Invisible things spoken : uninterrogated coloredness

Legends are memories greater than memories : Black reparations in the United States as subtext to Christian triumphalism and empire

To pick one's own cotton : religious values, public policy, and women's moral autonomy

Growing like topsy : solidarity in the work of dismantling evil

Everydayness : beginning notes on dismantling the cultural production of evil.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611361136

9781281361134

1281361135

9780230601628

0230601626

OCLC:

191934956