Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World

by Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Teresa Snorton

Overview

While there are many similarities among women's experiences, there are undeniable and important differences as well. Assembling a leading group of theologians, social scientists, and practitioners, this volume pioneers pastoral care of and by women in light of differences in race and ethnic background, class, generations, sexual orientation, and experience with the cultural realities that typically assail women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800664442
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	10/06/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is professor of pastoral care and pastoral theology at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a psychotherapist in ACPE; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; a McCord Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry; and a former President of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She co-edited a volume which transformed the field of pastoral theology, Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press). Three additional pioneering volumes followed, all with Fortress Press.

Teresa Snorton is Executive Director of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and Adjunct Instructor in Pastoral Care at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xii

Dedications xiii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Women Out of Order

1 Complicated Woman: Multiplicity and Relationality across Gender and Culture Pamela Cooper-White 7

2 Just Care: Pastoral Counseling with Socioeconomically Vulnerable Women Francesca Debora Nuzzolese 22

3 A Womanist Legacy of Trauma, Grief, and Loss: Reframing the Notion of the Strong Black Woman Icon Beverly R. Wallace 43

4 Pastoral Care of Korean American Women: The Degeneration of Mothering into the Management of an Inadequate Sense of Self Angella M. Pak Son 57

5 Gyn Ecology: Woman as a Symbol of Carrier, Protector, and Nourisher of Life Laura W. Dorsey 78

6 We Hold Our Stories in Blankets: Pastoral Care with American Indian Women Michelle Oberwise Lacock Carol Lakota Eastin 93

Part 2 Risking Change

7 Where Race, Gender, and Orientation Meet Karla J. Cooper Joretta L. Marshall 115

8 Womanist Pastoral Care Using Narrative Therapy in Addressing Multicultural Issues Jacqueline Kelley 128

9 La Veglia-Keeping Vigil: The Power of Storytelling and Story Sharing in Women's Lives-A Study in Mediterranean Culture Adriana P. Cavina 149

10 Aggression in Korean American Women: Cultural Adaptation and Conceptual Reformulation Insook Lee 159

11 Pastoral Care with Korean Goose Moms Suk Yeon Lee 173

12 Pentecostal and Female in Puerto Rico: Risking All to Pursue a Call Miriam Figueroa 195

Part 3 Creating Care in a Multicultural World

13 What About All Those Angry Black Women? Teresa E. Snorton 207

14 Unraveling the Relational Myth in the Turn Toward Autonomy: Pastoral Care and Counseling with African Women Esther E. Acolatse 218

15Pastoral Care for the 1.5 Generation: In-Between Space as the "New" Cultural Space Sophia Park 230

16 Counseling Grace: A Pastoral Theology Elizabeth Johnson Walker 243

17 Silent Cry: In Search of Harmony on Gold Mountain-The Yin-Yang Way of Pastoral Care Yoke-Lye Lim Kwong 255

18 Women, Professional Work, and Diversity: Pastoral Theology in the Midst of Globalization Barbara J. McClure 270

Part 4 Challenges Ahead

19 Soul Care Amid Religious Plurality: Excavating an Emerging Dimension of Multicultural Challenge and Competence Kathleen J. Greider 293

20 Are There Limits to Multicultural Inclusion? Difficult Questions for Feminist Pastoral Theology Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Melinda McGarrah Sharp 314

21 Where Race and Gender Collide: Deconstructing Racial Privilege Nancy Ramsay 331

22 Where Race and Gender Collude: Reconstructing Our History Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner 349

Contributors 358

Notes 364

Index 409