Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions

244 Pages·2005·13.013 MB·English

by  Patricia Beattie Jung, Mary E. Hunt, Radhika Balakrishnan

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Feminist Perspectives
from the Worlds Religions
Edited by
Patricia Beattie Jung
Mary E. Hunt
Radhika Balakrishnan
® Rutgers University Press
New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London
Theology Library
CLAREMONT
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
Ciaremont, CA
Third paperback printing, 2005
Patricia Beattie Jung’s essay was previously published in Theology and Sexuality
(March 2000): 26-47. Reprinted here with the permission of the editors of
Theology and Sexuality.
Ayesha Imam’s essay was previously published in Dossier 17 (1997): 7-25.
Reprinted here with the permission of the editors of WLUML Dossier.
Part of Pinar IIkkaracan’s essay was originally published in “Exploring the
context of women’s sexuality in eastern Turkey” in Reproductive Health Matters
6, 12 (November 1998), and is reprinted here with their permission.
Dorothy Ko’s essay was first published in a slightly modified version under the
title “Rethinking Sex, Female Agency, and Footbinding,” in Research on Women
in Modern Chinese History 7 (August 1999): 75-105.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Good sex / edited by Patricia Beattie Jung, Mary E. Hunt, Radhika
Balakrishnan
Darcie
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8135-2883-6 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8135-2884-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Women and religion. 2. Sex—Religious aspects. I. Jung, Patricia
Beattie. II. Hunt, Mary E., 1951- III. Balakrishnan, Radhika.
BL458 .G647 2001
291.1'78357—de21
00-039033
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I Creation of Desires
One Good Sex: Beyond Private Pleasure
Grace M. Jantzen
The Muslim Religious Right (“Fundamentalists”)
and Sexuality 15
Ayesha M. Imam
Three Guilty Pleasures: When Sex Is Good Because It’s Bad 31
Rebecca T. Alpert
Four Capitalism and Sexuality: Free to Choose? 44
Radhika Balakrishnan
Part Il Prices of Sex 59
Five Islam and Women’s Sexuality: A Research
Report from Turkey 61
Pinar I]kkaracan
SIX Sanctifying Women’s Pleasure 77
Patricia Beattie Jung
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Seven Beyond Compulsory Motherhood 96
Wanda Deifelt
Hight Buddhism on Sexuality and Enlightenment 113
Suwanna Satha-Anand
Part Ill Reconstruction of Sexualities 125
Authority, Resistance, and Transformation:
Nine
Jewish Feminist Reflections on Good Sex 12%.
Judith Plaskow
Ten The Sex of Footbinding 140
Dorothy Ko
Eleven Just Good Sex: Feminist Catholicism and
Human Rights 158
Mary E. Hunt
Conclusion 174
Notes 177
About the Contributors 203
Index 207