Oh my gosh, that description of the book is horrid! Wow, that gives it an entirely different, and to my mind skewed, spin. Well, the woman is brilliant. She is fiercely feminist - that description would suggest that she is towing the Catholic party line, which she is not. She IS Catholic and writes from that location, but she challenges traditional Marian thinking from both the neo-othorodx AND some of the more common veins of feminist thinking. Challenging the latter is important, because there is no homogeneous feminist thought, espcially not in theology. There are several branches and she is exploring a way to look at the female body in the context of Marian theology.
It's hard academic reading, but parts of it are amazing.
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Date: 2009-10-05 10:46 am (UTC)It's hard academic reading, but parts of it are amazing.