Publisher:University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Judith Chelius Stark -- Augustine : sexuality, gender, and women / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Monica : the feminine face of Christ / Anne-Marie Bowery -- Augustine's rhetoric of the feminine in the confessions : woman as mother, woman as other / Felecia McDuffie -- Confessing Monica / Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller -- O Mother, where art thou? : in search of Saint Monnica / Rebecca Moore -- Not nameless but unnamed : the woman torn from Augustine's side / Margaret R. Miles -- Augustine's letters to women / Joanne McWilliam -- De cura feminarum : Augustine the Bishop, North African women, and the development of a theology of female nature / E. Ann Matter -- Augustine on women : in God's image, but less so / Judith Chelius Stark -- To remember self, to remember God : Augustine on sexuality, rationality, and the Trinity / Julie B. Miller -- The evanescence of masculinity : deferral in Saint Augustine's confessions and some thoughts on its bearing on the sex/gender debate / Penelope Deutscher -- Poem : to Aurelius Augustine from the mother of his son / Ann Conrad Lammers.