Cover -- New Catholic Feminism: Theology and Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Middle -- 1. â#x80;#x93; Catholicism, Feminism and Faith -- The Vatican and Feminism -- Catholicism and the End of Feminism? -- Secular Theory and Feminist Theology -- The Secularization of Knowledge -- 2. â#x80;#x93; Feminist Bodies and Feminist Selves -- The Disembodied Self -- Butlerâ#x80;#x99;s Absent God -- Sex, Gender and the Secular Body -- Rethinking Essentialism -- The Self as Gift -- 3. â#x80;#x93; Gender, Knowing and Being -- Heidegger and the Question of Being -- Sexual Difference, Being and Language -- Feminist Theology After Heidegger -- Towards a Feminist Thomism -- Gendering Apophaticism -- 4. â#x80;#x93; Knowledge, Desire and Prayer -- The Secularization of Vision -- The Problematization of Prayer -- Desire and Reason -- Praying as a Woman -- Part II: The End -- 5. â#x80;#x93; Incarnation, Difference and God -- Balthasar and Irigaray: Engendering Difference -- Language and Embodiment -- Irigaray and the Otherness of God -- Balthasarâ#x80;#x99;s Theo-Drama -- Balthasar and the Otherness of Woman -- Eve, Mary and the Church as Woman -- The End of Woman -- 6. â#x80;#x93; Masculinity, Femininity and God -- Acting Up: Man as Material Girl -- Sexual Difference in Eastern and Western Christianity -- Sexual Difference and the Imago Dei -- Sexuality and Sacramentality -- 7. â#x80;#x93; Cherchez La Femme: Gender, Church and Priesthood -- The Nuptial Significance of the Priesthood -- The Marian and Petrine Church -- Justifying the Male Priesthood -- The Sacrament of the Body -- Sacramentality and the Female Body -- Cherchez Lâ#x80;#x99;homme: Balthasarâ#x80;#x99;s Sexual Paradoxes -- 8. â#x80;#x93; Desire, Death and the Female Body -- Balthasarâ#x80;#x99;s Suprasexuality -- Woman, Sex and Time -- Sex, Death and the Polarities of Human Existence -- Kenosis, Sex and Death -- Kenosis, Masculinity and Vulnerability.
Presenting a fresh look at the contemporary issue of women's place in the Catholic church, Tina Beattie explores controversial, yet topical subjects, such as sex and homosexuality in the Church; women's rights in Catholicism and the future of the Church. Setting up a dramatic encounter between the orthodox Catholic establishment and contemporary critical theory, including feminist theology and philosophy, queer theory, and French psycholinguistics, Tina Beattie examines fundamental questions about human identity, personhood and gender. From the naked bodies of Eden to the 'gay nuptials' of lit.