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Kayo Denda
Women's Studies Librarian
kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu
August 2008
Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: Women's and Gender Studies: Women and Religion:
Sexuality

Sexuality is a key topic in discussions about women and religion. Among issues having to do with women's sexuality and their religious agency are questions about good versus bad sex, social identity, the construction of authority, and how the female body figures into these debates. Listed are sample holdings available through the RUL system.

Motherhood and Virginity

The conspiracy to destroy Black women / Michael Porter, 2001. Text.

From moon goddesses to virgins : the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire / Pete Sigal, 2000. Text.

Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 / Ruth H. Bloch, 2003. Text.

Rome's vestal virgins: Rome's vestal priestesses in the late Republic and Early Empire / Robin Lorsch Wildfang, 2006. Text.

Shadows of Mary : reading the Virgin Mary in medieval texts / Teresa P. Reed, 2003. Text.

Vestal virgins, sibyls, and matrons: Women in Roman religion / Sarolta A. Takacs, 2008. Text.

The virgin diaries / producer Peter Brosens, 2002. Videorecording.

Ordination

The close: a young woman's first year at seminary / Chloe Breyer, 2000. Text.

Daughters of thunder: Black women preachers and their sermons, 1850-1979 / Bettye Collier-Thomas, 1998. Text.

Feminization of the clergy in America: occupational and organizational perspectives / Paula D. Nesbitt, 1997. Text.

A history of women and ordination / Bernard Cooke and Gary Macy, eds., 2002. Text.

Ordaining women: culture and conflict in religious organizations / Mark Chaves, 1997. Text.

The ordination of women in the Catholic Church : unmasking a cuckoo's egg tradition / John Wijngaards, 2001. Text.

When women become priests: the Catholic women's ordination debate / Kelley A. Raab, 2000. Text.

Why me, Lord? : one woman's ordination to the priesthood with commentary and complaint / Betty Bone Schiess, 2003. Text.

Womanpriest: a personal odyssey / Alla Bozarth-Campbell, 1978. Text.

Women with a mission: religion, gender, and the politics of women clergy / Laura R. Olson, Sue E. S. Crawford, and Melissa M. Deckman, 2005. Text.

Women's leadership in marginal religions: explorations outside the mainstream / edited by Catherine Wessinger, 1993. Text.

Sexual Ethics

Catholics and contraception: An American history / Leslie Woodcock Tentler, 2004. Text.

Compassionate respect : a feminist approach to medical ethics and other questions / Margaret A. Farley, 2002. Text.

Disruptive Christian ethics: When racism and women's lives matter / Traci C. West, 2006. Text.

Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East / Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early, eds., 2002. Text.

Female circumcision: the interplay of religion, culture, and gender in Kenya / Mary Nyangweso Wangila, 2007. Text.

Fighting the forces : what's at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery, eds., 2002. Text.

Good sex: feminist perspectives from the world's religions / Jung, Patricia Beattie, Mary E. Hunt, Radhika Balakrishnan, 2001. Text.

Linking sexuality & gender : naming violence against women in the United Church of Canada / Tracy J. Trothen, 2003. Text.

No turning back: Two nuns' battle with the Vatican over women's right to choose / Barbara Ferraro, Patricia Hussey with Jane O'Reilly, 1990. Text.

The Oxford handbook of practical ethics / edited by Hugh LaFollette, 2003. Text.

The reproduction revolution : a Christian appraisal of sexuality, reproductive technologies, and the family / John F. Kilner, Paige C. Cunningham, and W. David Hager, eds., 2000. Text.

Sacred rights : the case for contraception and abortion in world religions / Daniel C. Maguire, ed., 2003. Text.

Sex, religion, media / edited by Dane S. Claussen, ed., 2002. Text.

Sexuality, obscenity, community: women, Muslims, and the Hindu public in colonial India / Gupta, Charu, 2002. Text.

Sexual Orientation

French feminists on religion : a reader / Morny Joy, Kathleen O'Grady, and Judith L. Poxon, eds., 2002. Text.

Homosexuality, science, and the "plain sense" of scripture / David L. Balch, ed., 2000. Text.

The night is young : sexuality in Mexico in the time of AIDS / Héctor Carrillo, 2002.

Sexuality and the world's religions / Machacek, David W. and Melissa M. Wilcox, eds., 2003. Text.

Subject Headings

Applied ethics
Contraception - Religious aspects
Episcopal Church - Clergy - Biography
Feminist Ethics
Homosexuality - Religious aspects
Sex - Religious aspects
Sex Role - United States - History
Sexism - United States

Created by A. Bates, Ph.D., Religion and Society, Fall 2003
 
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