sensuality patriarchy imagination relationship

books:

After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions (Faith Meets Faith Series)
Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin

Orbis Books, 1991

Religious Imagination and the Body: A Feminist Analysis

1 review
Paula M. Cooey

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

A must read for those interested in the topic
This book is an incredible exploration of how the body mediates perception and experience. Dr. Cooey is a clear writer who clearly explains difficult concepts to the reader.

Family, Freedom, and Faith: Building Community Today
Paula M. Cooey

Westminster John Knox Press, 1996

Cooey takes a hard look at the American family in the late 20th century. She deals with the most critical issues surrounding the public discussion of family life and offers very specific, theologically sound suggestions for supporting concern for family life in all its diversity. This book will be an important starting point for discussion about issues that will affect society.

Embodied Love: Sensuality and Relationship As Feminist Values

2 reviews
Paula M. Cooey, Sharon A. Farmer

HarperCollins, 1988

Exploring the Diversity of Love
This is a classic text of essays on feminism, love, and spirituality. Its contributors make up a list of some of the most influential feminists voices in religion. Of particular note is chapter eight, "Relational Love: A Feminist Christian Vision." In this essay, author Linell E. Cady argues for themes that have come to characterize feminist view of love: mutuality, relationality, and eros. ...

Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent And Desire
Paula M. Cooey

Fortress Press, 2006

Although Christianity began as a dissident movement and in the Reformation recreated itself through dissent, traditional Christianity has always been uneasy with dissent and pluralism. Whether directed against the church itself or the larger society, dissent has been most often met with ridicule and persecution. Lively and engaging, Cooey's highly relevant book retrieves and valorizes the reforming impulse from Reformation times, follows it ...