Religion, Women of Color, and the Suffrage Movement

SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai

doi:10.5771/9781793627704

Summary

The year 2020 marks the centenary of the passing of the 19th Amendment that allowed for women in the United States to vote. The strategic struggle of women demanding equal dignity and the right to vote in the United States helped to shed light on the systemic evils that have plagued the collective history of the country. Ideologies of racism, genderism, classism, and many more were and continue to be used to deny women their dignities both in the United States and in other parts of the world. This work sheds light on the intersectionality of religion, class, gender, philosophy, theology, and culture as they shape the experiences of women, especially women of color. A fundamental question that this volume aims to address is: What does it mean to be a woman of color in a world where systems of erasure dominate? The title of this volume is meant to showcase a deliberate engagement with the uncelebrated insights and perspectives of women of color in a world where systemic discrimination persists, and to articulate new strategies and paradigms for recognizing their contributions to the broader struggles for freedom and equity of women in our world.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2769-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2770-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 334
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. A Critique of the Roman Catholic Argument on Male-Only Priesthood No access
  2. A Brief Critique of United States of America’s Cultural Biases against Women No access
  3. Why This Anthology? No access
  4. Content of This Anthology No access
  5. Concluding Comments No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
1. 1. Political Rights and Citizenship No access
  2. Black Women Redefining “Political Freedom” No access
  3. Black Women and Suffrage No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Further Readings No access
  7. References No access
2. 1. Club Women’s Sociopolitical Engagement No access
  2. The Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class No access
  3. Faith as a Tool of Resistance to Disenfranchisement No access
  4. Club Women’s Worldview No access
  5. Respectability and the Club Women Movement No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Further Readings No access
  9. References No access
3. 1. Situating Struggles from the Margins and Advocacy at Intersections No access
  2. Conceptualizing Struggles from the Margins and Advocacy at Intersections No access
  3. Practicing Struggles from the Margins, Advocacy at Intersections No access
  4. The Case of #MuslimWomenBan No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
  8. References No access
4. 1. Strategy 1: Prooftexting the Bible No access
  2. Strategy 2: Essentializing Gender No access
  3. Strategy 3: Reinforcing Hegemonic Rhetoric from Pope to Pope No access
  4. Strategy 4: Turning a Prohibition into Law No access
  5. Saying “No” to Claims of Ecclesial Authority: Concluding Comments No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
  8. References No access
1. 1. Male and Female in the Greek Culture No access
  2. Male and Female in the Judeo-Christian Tradition No access
  3. Contemporary Constructions of Male–Female Relationships No access
  4. Concluding Statement No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Further Readings No access
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2. 1. Leadership Requires Action No access
  2. Conclusion No access
  3. Notes No access
  4. Further Readings No access
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3. 1. Conceptual Clarification No access
  2. Theological Anthropology Analyzed No access
  3. Sociocultural Experiences of Women No access
  4. The Dynamics of Racism No access
  5. Toward a Pragmatic Theological Anthropology of Dependence and Relationality No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Further Readings No access
  9. References No access
4. 1. The Rupturing of the Ecological from the Anthropological No access
  2. The Interrelated Resilience of Indigenous Cosmologies No access
  3. Land as Life and Being No access
  4. The Role of Women in the Web of Life No access
  5. Indigenous Re-Membering the Ecology and Anthropology Divide No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
  8. References No access
1. 1. Experiences of Black Women: Seeking an Inclusive Anthropology No access
  2. Critiquing the Cartesian Model of the Human No access
  3. Toward an Inclusive Anthropology: Voices from the Margins No access
  4. Highlights of an Inclusive Theological Anthropology No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
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2. 1. The Heritage of Black Women in Service to Voting Rights No access
  2. The Religious Heritage of Black Suffragists and the Community No access
  3. The Black Spirit of God Embodied in Black Women No access
  4. The Democratic Ideal and the Suffragist Struggle No access
  5. The Black Suffragist Journey: Inspiration and Strategy for a Reluctant Nation No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
  8. References No access
3. 1. Black Spirituality as Resilience and Resistance No access
  2. Go Tell It: The Oral-Aural Tradition in Black Spirituality No access
  3. Mary Don’t You Weep: Mary, Mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene in Black Spirituality No access
  4. I’m Gonna Move When the Spirit Say Move: The Spiritual Journeys of Black Women Suffragettes No access
  5. Mary Ann Shad Cary (1823–1893) No access
  6. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) No access
  7. Hallie Quinn Brown (1845–1949) No access
  8. Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) No access
  9. Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) No access
  10. Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (1884–1965) No access
  11. Let’s Us Walk Together and Not Be Weary: Gleanings from the Past—Hope for the Future No access
  12. Notes No access
  13. Further Readings No access
  14. References No access
4. 1. Western Enlightenment Notion of Person No access
  2. Trinitarian Foundations of the Theology of Women’s Rights No access
  3. The Image of God No access
  4. An Igbo Cosmo-religious Worldview and the Notion of Personhood No access
  5. Interrogating Human/Women’s Rights in the United States No access
  6. Women’s Rights: Convergence of Trinitarian and African Anthropological Insights as a Liberatory Hermeneutic No access
  7. Conclusion No access
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  10. References No access
1. 1. The Neuroscience Underlying Social and Emotional Processing No access
  2. Healing Remedies Inspired by Moral Elevation No access
  3. How Spirituality Leads to Flourishing No access
  4. Intersectional Marginality: The Mentorship of Women from Underrepresented Minorities No access
  5. Supporting WOC in the Academy No access
  6. Supporting WOC Faculty No access
  7. Supporting WOC Students No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Further Readings No access
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2. 1. Learning in a Global Context No access
  2. Strategic Pedagogies No access
  3. Cultural Humility and Community Cultural Wealth No access
  4. High-Impact Practices No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Further Readings No access
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3. 1. Reflections on the Development of Feminist, Womanist, Queer, and Gender Biblical Studies No access
  2. Critique of Current Gendered Bible Approaches No access
  3. How to Become Part of the “Alternative Present”? No access
  4. Reading the Hebrew Bible in the Age of Techno-Feudalism: Toward a Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Further Readings No access
  7. References No access
4. 1. Living in Apocalyptic Times No access
  2. Living, Teaching, and Learning in Apocalyptic Times: On Discomfort, Trauma, and Difference No access
  3. Living, Teaching, and Learning (with) Religion and Theology in Apocalyptic Times: Deforming the Distorted and Dominant? No access
  4. A Somatic Abolition? Toward a Post-traumatic, Discomforting, Deformational Pedagogy No access
  5. Slouching, Together, After Pentecost? No access
  6. Notes No access
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Index No access Pages 325 - 326
About the Contributors No access Pages 327 - 334