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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Melissa M. WilcoxPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780253221162ISBN 10: 0253221161 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 01 September 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Map of Los Angeles 1. Beyond the Congregation 2. Setting the Stage: Historical Contexts 3. Queering the Spiritual Marketplace 4. Negotiating Religion: Continuity, Conversion, Innovation 5. Tiles in the Mosaic: Organizations as Resources 6. Building a Mosaic: The Sacred (and the) Self 7. Queer Women, Religion, and Postmodernity Appendix A. Biographical Summaries Appendix B. Methods and Methodological Considerations Appendix C. Interview Schedules Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsOriginal research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about... A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality' ... and using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives. Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College ""In this volume Wilcox explores her findings of a survey of women conducted in the Los Angeles area, investigating female sexual variations in relation to religion and spirituality...The volume usefully concludes with biographical summaries and methodological considerations."" Stephen hunt, Religion and Gender ""Original research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about... A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality' ... And using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives."" Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College Author InformationMelissa M. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at Whitman College and author of Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (IUP, 2003) and editor (with David Wayne Machacek) of Sexuality and the World's Religions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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