Description
Book SynopsisThis first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse.
Trade Review"To my knowledge, this anthology is the first attempt to give a comprehensive account of the emerging field of Latina feminist theology, and the various contributions illustrate how variegated this field promises to be." Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Scripture and Interpretation, Harvard Divinity School " ... a most welcome publication; informative, engaging and demonstrating yet again the richly diverse nature of feminist theologies and our need to listen to each other's experience." Reviews in Religion and Theology, February 2003 Vol 10 Issue 1
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Olga Villa Parra
- Introduction
- Part I: Sources, Thought, and Praxis of Latina Feminist Insight
- 1. Michelle A. González: Seeing Beauty within Torment: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Baroque in New Spain
- 2. Teresa Delgado: Prophesy Freedom: Puerto Rican Women's Literature as a Source for Latina Feminist Theology
- 3. Gail Pérez: Ana Castillo as Santera: Reconstructing Popular Religious Praxis
- 4. Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz: Reading from Ourselves: Identity and Hermeneutics among Mexican-American Feminists
- 5. Anna Adams: Perception Matters: Pentecostal Latinas in Allentown, Pennsylvania
- 6. Jeanette Rodríguez: Latina Activists: Toward an Inclusive Spirituality of Being in the World
- Part II: U.S. Latina Feminist Theological Insight
- 7. María Pilar Aquino: Latina Feminist Theology: Central Features
- 8. Daisy L. Machado: The Unnamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and the Undocumented Woman
- 9. Carmen Marie Nanko: Justice Crosses the Border: The Preferential Option for the Poor in the United States
- 10. Nora O. Lozano-Díaz: Ignored Virgin or Unaware Women: A Mexican-American Protestant Reflection on the Virgin of Guadalupe
- 11. Gloria Inés Loya: Pathways to a Mestiza Feminist Theology
- 12. Nancy Pineda-Madrid: Notes Toward a ChicanaFeminist Epistemology (and Why It Is Important for Latina Feminist Theologies)
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
