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By Tina Beattie

it's challenging to over-estimate the problem that feminism poses to Roman Catholicism. Pope John Paul II's demand a 'new feminism' has ended in the improvement of a Catholic theological reaction to the so-called 'old feminism'. The New Catholic Feminism sets up a dramatic stumble upon among the orthodox Catholic institution and modern severe conception, together with feminist theology and philosophy, queer conception, and French psycholinguistics, for you to discover basic questions on human id, personhood and gender. From the bare our bodies of Eden to the 'gay nuptials' of liturgy, it argues that the unusual and unstable global of Catholic sexual symbolism can't be 'tamed' to satisfy the ideological agendas of both feminist theology or conservative Catholicism. in basic terms via an intensive re-examination of the sacramental value of the sexed human physique may the Catholic Church offer a redemptive reaction to the sexual politics of latest society.

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