Women and the Value of Suffering
Author | : Kristine M. Rankka |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0814658660 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780814658666 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Kristine Rankka has produced a masterpiece--an insightful analysis of modern feminist interpretations of 'radical' or 'tragic' suffering. Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation. By invoking the category of the 'tragic, ' Rankka proposes a mystical-political spirituality to move reflection on suffering from the private, to the communal, interdependent realm. Rankka's _Women and the Value of Suffering_ is a creative retrieval of a conversation among women, long in progress, about the meaning of life's suffering. It is eminently readable and thoroughly enriching " George E. Griener, S.J. Academic dean Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley