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A wide-ranging, indispensable intersectional account of misogyny in our society.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Debra Meyers and Mary Sue Barnett
1 Sexual Assault Prosecutions
Kristi Gray and Dorislee Gilbert
2 Intentionally Inclusive Pedagogy
Pedagogical Practice as an Act of Social Justice
Tammy Hatfield, Portia Allie-Turco, Sarah E. Johansson and Melissa Brennan
3 The Dangers of “You Are Not Your Own”
How Purity Culture Props Up Rape Culture
Tara M. Tuttle
4 Objectification and Sexualization of Girls
A Case Study
Debra Meyers
5 A Squeegee in Your Path
Resisting Erasure
Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos
6 Resistance to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide
Mary Sue Barnett
7 Child Marriage
A War on Girls
Donna Pollard
8 Let Me Prey Upon You
Sandy Phillips Kirkham
9 Patriarchal Power and the Catholic Church
Diane Dougherty
10 African-American Pan-Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal Women Preachers
Angela Cowser
11 Black Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Clergywoman at the Crossroads in Ministry
Stephanie A. Welsh
12 Misogynoir and Health Inequities
Giving Voice to the Erased
Francoise Knox Kazimierczuk and Meredith Shockley-Smith
Index
About the author
Debra Meyers is a professor at Northern Kentucky University. Meyers has published eight books and dozens of scholarly journal articles and encyclopedia entries. She recently published Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Mary Sue Barnett is a Catholic priest, a hospital chaplain, and president of the Louisville Coalition for CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). She recently published Crisis and Challenge in the Roman Catholic Church (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Summary
A wide-ranging, indispensable intersectional account of misogyny in our society.
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