Contents

	INTRODUCTION: Liberating the Word Letty M. Russell	11
PART I	FEMINIST CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
1.	Feminist Consciousness in Historical Perspective Barbara Brown Zikmund	21
2.	The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness Katie Geneva Cannon	30
3.	Feminist Consciousness and the Interpretation of ScriptureMargaret A. Farley	41
PART II	FEMINISTS AT WORK
4.	Feminist Uses of Biblical Materials Katherine Doob Sakenfield	55
5.	A Gentile Woman's Story Sharon H. Ringe	65
6.	"Mother in Israel": A Familiar Story Reconsidered J. Cheryl Exum	73
7.	Prophets and Pornography: Female Sexual Imagery in HoseaT. Drorah Setel	86
8.	Every Two Minutes: Battered Women and Feminist Interpretation Susan Brookes Thistletwaite	96
PART III
9.	Feminist Interpretation: A Method of Correlation Rosemary Radford Ruether	111
10.	The Will to Choose or to Reject : Continuing Our Critical Work Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza	125
11.	Authority and the Challenge of Feminist InterpretationLetty M. Russell	137
	POSTSCRIPT: Jottings on the Journey Phyllis Trible	147

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