Volume 27 Number 2, 2011

Editors’ Introduction

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre

Feminism, Religion, and the Politics of History

Deborah Whitehead

Sor Juana’s Critique of Theological Arrogance

Lisa D. Powell

From Testimony to Seximony, from Script to Scripture: Revealing Mormon Women’s Sexuality through the Mormon Vagina Monologues

Jill Peterfeso

Socioeconomic Status in Early Christianity and Thecla’s Rejection of Marriage

Katherine Bain

A Jewish Reading of The Woman’s Bible

Claudia Setzer

Appropriation and Assertion of the Female Self: Materials for the Study of the Female Tantric Master Lakṣmī of Uḍḍiyāna

Ulrich Timme Kragh

A Feminist in the House and Senate: An Interview with Dorothy Jensen Rupert

Mary C. Churchill

The Scar

April Bulmer

Mothers and Sons: Feminist Parenting and the Conundrums of Raising Males

Stephanie May

Mothers and Sons: Contesting Privilege?

Judith Plaskow

It’s Complicated: Thoughts on Nurturing African American Males

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Despite All Odds: Single Mothering’s Empowerment

Fawzia Ahmad

Feminist Mothering of Sons: Ethical Practices for Everyone

Kate M. Ott

Raising Sam: Mothering as a Secular Feminist Scholar of Religion

Peggy Schmeiser

What No Longer Serves Us: Resisting Ableism and Anti-Judaism in New Testament Healing Narratives

Julia Watts Belser, Melanie S. Morrison

Notes on Contributors