Feminist Theology and Spirituality
In the late 20th century, feminist critique of traditional religious ideas has evolved into a larger theme of feminist religion and feminist spirituality. Also a few earlier attempts to interpret religion from a feminist perspective.
Mary Daly biography - profile of feminist theologian and philosopher Mary Daly.
Rachel Speght was the first woman known to have published a women's rights pamphlet in English under her own name. Here are some works by or about Rachel Speght and her writings.
Quotes by Mary Daly - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
A profile of writer, feminist, and Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels.
Mary Daly's critique of Christianity and patriarchy, first published in
Commonweal in 1971.
An outline of Mary Daly's argument in her 1985 rebuttal of Simone de Beauvoir's
The Second Sex.
From the Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, an article by Rosemary Radford Ruether on the history of feminist theology. She outlines three stages of that history: documenting bias, searching for alternative traditions, and finally constructing a new system, a transformation of religion.
Part of an online course on women artists of the American West, this section looks at the way women artists express spirituality.
A somewhat informal analysis of the accuracy of Donna Steichen's critique of Catholic feminism, written by Elizabeth T. Knuth.
