Full Description
The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine's thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine's sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex and marriage, the possibilities of human speech and exegesis, and the hope of education and community. In addition, this book is a persuasive demonstration of the benefits of bringing together Augustinian scholars with the most pressing concerns of the present.
Contents
Part I. Desire and the Passions
Chapter 1. Patricia Grosse Brewer - Sex and Love in the World that Was
Chapter 2. Richard A. Lee, Jr. - The Effectivity of Women in Augustine's Confessions: The Erasure of Agency and the Regulation of Desire
Chapter 3. Eileen C. Sweeney - The Intersection of Gender and the Emotions: Concupiscence and its Discontents
Part II. Sex and Marriage
Chapter 4. Julia Kelto Lillis - Augustine and Anatomical Virginity: The Problem of Double Integrity
Chapter 5. Willemein Otten - Between Exegesis and Naturalization: Gender and Creation in Augustine
Part III. Language, Speech, and Exegesis
Chapter 6. Jennifer Hockenbery - Beyond God the Father: Augustine's Feminine Images of God and His Concerns for Human Women
Chapter 7. Carol Harrison - Women's Talk: Silent Voices and Inarticulate Cries - Augustine on Conceiving and Giving Birth to the Word
Chapter 8. Karmen MacKendrick - Variations on Eve
Part IV. Education and Community
Chapter 9. Maggie Ann Labinski - Promise and Peril
Chapter 10. Daniel Jean Perrier - Augustine's Confessions and Monstrous Recognition
Chapter 11. Anne-Marie Schultz and Michael R. Whitenton - Finding an Ally in Augustine: Augustine, Feminism, and Contemporary Reconsiderations of Gender
