Linking sexuality & gender : naming violence against women in the United Church of Canada / Tracy J. Trothen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trothen, Tracy J. (Tracy Joan), 1963-

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Etudes sur les femmes et la religion ; no 9.

Studies in women and religion ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Church of Canada--Doctrines.

United Church of Canada.

Women--Crimes against--Religious aspects--United Church of Canada.

Women.

Violence--Religious aspects--United Church of Canada.

Violence.

Sex--Religious aspects--United Church of Canada.

Sex.

Sex role--Religious aspects--United Church of Canada.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Linking sexuality and gender

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why did it take so long for the United Church of Canada to respond to violence against women? Tracy J. Trothen looks at the United Church as a uniquely Canadian institution, and explores how it has approached gender and sexuality issues. She argues that how the Church deals with these issues influences its ability to name violence against women. In examining the Church's early approaches to gender and sexuality, Tracy J. Trothen discovered that the United Church had tended to see certain structures or roles as sacred and others as demonic. For example, while sex outside m

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; I: Methodology; II: The Development of The United Church of Canada's Approach to Human Sexuality; III: The Development of The United Church of Canada's Approach to Women's Roles and the Family; IV: Case Study: In God's Image...Male and Female; V: Case Study: Gift, Dilemma and Promise; VI: Case Study: The Task Force on the Changing Roles of Women and Men in Church and Society; VII: Taking Stock: A Contextual, Retrospective Look at Sexuality, Gender, Violence, and The United Church of Canada; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 149-155.

ISBN:

9786610925759

9781280925757

1280925752

9780889205796

0889205795

OCLC:

753479600