Feminism and Theology. Edited by Janet Martin Soskice and Diana Lipton. Oxford Readings in Feminism. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xv + 379 pp. £20.00/$24.95 (paper).
Feminist theological writings continually question and reexamine traditional theology (p. 7), yet feminist scholars often refer to feminist theology as "an oxymoron" (p. 1) or "a theoretical backwater" (p. 7). Feminism and Theology challenges these presuppositions with essays that bridge these two seemingly contradictory disciplines and highlight the significance of their merger. "Feminism in theology may lack the theoretical fireworks of some of its sister subjects," adds Janet Martin Soskice, …