The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions - Brossura

Lisa Isherwood

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0232526389 ISBN 13: 9780232526387

Casa editrice: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

From Eve's apple to female saints nourished by the Eucharist alone, to the recent phenomenon of evangelical `Slim For Him' programmes that encourage women to lose physically and gain spiritually, the ways in which women relate to food, particularly in a religious context, are many and fascinating. In this engaging and accessible book, the author explores their complex connections and paradoxical messages, in which women are at once nurturers and temptresses, visionaries and hysterics, controllers of the meal table and excessive consumers. Lisa Isherwood traces the links between beauty, slenderness and the Judeo-Christian God to ask why is there no fat Jesus and considers new ways of imagining desire, wholeness and self esteem in light of a Christian tradition that values asceticism and restraint. Drawing on case study material she also looks at the issue of eating disorders and their spiritual dimension, and the twin problems of obesity and over-consumption. Clearly accessible for general readers, as well as those with a particular interest in theology, sociology of religion and gender studies, this book provides a fascinating cultural history of the complex ways in which food, women and religion interrelate.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Professor Lisa Isherwood is Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies at the University of Winchester and is founder editor of the Feminist Theology journal. She has written/edited 14 books, including The Power of Erotic Celibacy, Liberating Christ and Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0232526389
• ISBN 13: 9780232526387
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176