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Also a mother : work and family as theological dilemma

Title: Also a mother : work and family as theological dilemma / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.
Author: Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J.
Publication: Nashville : Abingdon Press, ©1994.

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215 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"As the twentieth century closes, the cry for equality between the sexes is provoking unprecedented conflicts between women and men in the workplace and in the family. Women of all colors and classes continue to carry out an enormous amount of indispensable, unremunerated caring labor, which at once undergirds and is peripheral to human life, as men have defined it, and therefore without value. Also a Mother protests this definition of work and value, and claims that beneath the everyday scuffles over gender roles and child care lies an essential religious crisis of work and love." "Drawing on her situation as seminary professor and mother of three sons, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore argues that Christian ideals of motherly self-sacrifice and fatherly hard work, as they have been interpreted by church tradition and promoted in society at large, not only fail the lives of many people today, but misrepresent both the intent of God's creation and the promise of the gospel message itself. She asks: How might theological doctrines of love, self-sacrifice creation, procreation, vocation, and community better respond to women and men who want to work in fulfilling ways and to love in intimate relationships including those that involve raising children? To answer adequately, theology must seriously entertain what mothers think, feel, desire, and know bodily, in a way that it has failed to do thus far. The Christian feminist maternal theology that Miller-McLemore proposes challenges the mores of a society that has selectively divided the burdens and rewards of family and work along gender lines, calls for a rereading of biblical and theological traditions that have been wrongly used to uphold this division, and reclaims the values of caring labor for both men and women."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-215).

Contents

Propaganda Poem -- Introduction: A Good Mother Who Can Find? -- Pt. 1. Dilemmas of Work and Family. Ch. 1. Motherhood and the Theological Pie. Ch. 2. Generativity in Male Theory and Men's Lives: A Lesson in Exclusive Language. Ch. 3. Generativity in Feminist Theory and Women's Lives: What's a Feminist Mother to Do? Ch. 4. Orpah's Untold Story: Generativity and Feminist Theology -- Pt. 2. The Mother's Voice: New Visions of Work and Family. Ch. 5. Generativity Crises of My Own: The Story Behind the Life. Ch. 6. Behold the Mother: Generative Lessons Unknown to Men and Angels. Ch. 7. According to the Pace of the Children: Generative Acts of Faith, Discipline, and Parental Inclination. Ch. 8. Returning to the Mother's House and Mending the Web: A Good Enough Vision of the Generative Life.

ISBN

0687110203
9780687110209

LCCN

93044713

OCLC

ocm29566557
29566557
SCSB-2025021

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library