Missionary Positions: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective on Sex Work and Faith-Based Outreach from Australia: Theology in Practice, cartea 5
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004353176
ISBN-10: 9004353178
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Theology in Practice
ISBN-10: 9004353178
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Theology in Practice
Cuprins
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Background to This Study
The Ethics of Examining Sex Workers
From the Bedroom to the Page: an Approach
Scope of the Text
1 Sex Work in Australia
Local Context
Roots
Convict to Colonial
A Modern History of Perverted Employment
Challenging Stigma and the Myths of Disease
Clients of Sex Industry Workers
Conflict and Confusion in Legal Status
2 Prostitution, Feminist Discourse and Theology
Radical Feminism and Abolitionists
Liberal Feminism and Sex Worker Activists
A Range of Feminist Positions
A Critical Conversation with Casting Stones
Other Voices in Feminist Liberation Theology
Grassroots Christian Praxis
The Space Where Complexity Emerges
3 A New Position: Postcolonialism
Questioning Established Order
The Postcolonial Matrix
Otherness
Hybrid Identity and the Third Space
Agency
Politics of Rescue
Intersections of Power: First Peoples, Colonialism and Sex Work
Further Probing Questions
4 Australian Missionary Positions
Otherness
Hybrid Identity
Agency
Politics of Rescue
The Sexual Values Underpinning Ministry
The Third Space
5 Feminist Theology with Sex Workers
Working It as Subjects
Challenging the Decent/Indecent Sexual Code
Sex Worker Seeks Justice and Liberation
What About the Sin?
Wisdom Woman/Strange Woman
An Invitation
6 Postcolonial and Feminist Christian Practices
Like Flying
Otherness: Where Two or Three are Gathered
Can It be Embodied and Ethical?
Hybrid Identity: Lube My Wheels
Agency: a Faithful Christian Sex Worker
The Politics of Rescue: Places I Didn't Think I'd Go
Here's the Rub
Conclusion
The Reckoning of Postcolonial Justice
Shared Strength and Loss
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Background to This Study
The Ethics of Examining Sex Workers
From the Bedroom to the Page: an Approach
Scope of the Text
1 Sex Work in Australia
Local Context
Roots
Convict to Colonial
A Modern History of Perverted Employment
Challenging Stigma and the Myths of Disease
Clients of Sex Industry Workers
Conflict and Confusion in Legal Status
2 Prostitution, Feminist Discourse and Theology
Radical Feminism and Abolitionists
Liberal Feminism and Sex Worker Activists
A Range of Feminist Positions
A Critical Conversation with Casting Stones
Other Voices in Feminist Liberation Theology
Grassroots Christian Praxis
The Space Where Complexity Emerges
3 A New Position: Postcolonialism
Questioning Established Order
The Postcolonial Matrix
Otherness
Hybrid Identity and the Third Space
Agency
Politics of Rescue
Intersections of Power: First Peoples, Colonialism and Sex Work
Further Probing Questions
4 Australian Missionary Positions
Otherness
Hybrid Identity
Agency
Politics of Rescue
The Sexual Values Underpinning Ministry
The Third Space
5 Feminist Theology with Sex Workers
Working It as Subjects
Challenging the Decent/Indecent Sexual Code
Sex Worker Seeks Justice and Liberation
What About the Sin?
Wisdom Woman/Strange Woman
An Invitation
6 Postcolonial and Feminist Christian Practices
Like Flying
Otherness: Where Two or Three are Gathered
Can It be Embodied and Ethical?
Hybrid Identity: Lube My Wheels
Agency: a Faithful Christian Sex Worker
The Politics of Rescue: Places I Didn't Think I'd Go
Here's the Rub
Conclusion
The Reckoning of Postcolonial Justice
Shared Strength and Loss
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Lauren McGrow, Ph.D. (2014), Charles Sturt University, is an independent scholar and pastoral practitioner from Australia. Her work is concerned with diverse human sexualities and the impact of religious structures upon marginalised women. She has published numerous articles about sex work.