Women with 2020 vision : American theologians on the voice, vote, and vision of women / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevenson-Moessner, Jeanne, 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--United States.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--Religious aspects.

Women in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 243 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, [2020]

Summary:

Women haven't always had the right to vote. From such diverse voices as John Stuart Mill and Cokie Roberts, the absolute right of both women and men to vote has been affirmed. And yet, resistance to women's suffrage even by women themselves has a long and painful history. In this exciting volume, thirteen theologians and religious leaders in America look back at the historic victory in 1920 when women in the United States won the right to vote. They then assess the current situation and speak into the future. Women with 2020 Vision: American Theologians on the Voice, Vote, and Vision of Women commemorates the 100th anniversary of women in the United States obtaining the right to vote, a story that must be told and retold and reflected upon in light of the current sociopolitical-theological realities.

Contents:

Prologue : stones and stories of remembrance / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner

Blindfolds removed : the perspicacity of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner

Dreams deferred ... visions realized : the struggle for African American women's rights / Teresa Jefferson-Snorton

Reason, emotions, and the right to vote : how history got neuroscience wrong, and the implications for full inclusion of the "other" / Barbara J. McClure

Claiming our inheritance / Kimberly L. Detherage

Seeing through American Indian eyes : a vision of balance and equity / Michelle Oberwise Lacock and Carol Lakota Eastin

Power to vote, no power to protect / Sophia Park

Caring for victims of human trafficking : a contemporary example of emancipation / Francesca Debora Nuzzolese

Pan-African women of faith : lifting our voices and votes to end hunger and poverty / Angelique Walker-Smith

The art of feminism in the framework of Confucian harmony / Insook Lee

Between the ballot and the bullet : women's suffrage, liminality, and the arc of the moral universe / Mary Elizabeth "Beth" Toler

Lutheran visionaries : the public square and the church / Judith Roberts and Mary J. Streufert

Epilogue : women with 2020 vision : a summary of new "sightings" / Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5064-6813-6

OCLC:

1199308247