The Grace of Difference A Canadian Feminist

Marion J. Legge addresses theological ethics from the context of Canadianwomen -- especially the experience of marginalized women in Canada. Beginningwith a critical reassessment of Canadian Radical Christianity, she argues thatapproches that center on question of economic justice have neverthelessoverlooked the day-to-day economic realities of Canadian women. Legge develops areformulated critical theory of culture that, though it emphasizes difference,avoids premature abstraction and misplaced generalizations. She seeks a voice toarticulate the theological and ethical dimensions of women's experience in thetexts of three Canadian novels: In Search of April Raintree, by Beatrice Cullen;The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence; and Obasan, by Joy Kogawa.

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Study: Assumptions, Methods, and Sources	p. 1
Thesis Direction	p. 1
Basic Assumptions of the Study	p. 5
Contextual and Liberation Theologies	p. 5
Feminist Ethical Principles	p. 12
A Feminist Hermeneutical Circle of Praxis	p. 17
Method and Scope of the Study	p. 30
Canadian Radical Christianity: Strengths and Limitations of Its Method for Those at the Margins	p. 33
Contextualization of Theological Ethics in Canada	p. 33
A Feminist Contextualization	p. 38
Radical Christianity of the Thirties and Forties	p. 40
Adequacy to Women's Experience of the Period	p. 47
A Critical Appraisal of Radical Christianity	p. 51
A Lively Concern for Economic Justice in Canadian Theological Ethics	p. 56
The Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, 1936	p. 58
The Canadian Catholic Bishops' Position, 1983	p. 60
The United Church of Canada Position, 1984	p. 63
Summary	p. 67
A Feminist Critique of Radical Christian Economic Ethics in Canada	p. 69
Introduction	p. 69
A Survey of Canadian Women's Economic Realities	p. 73
Women's Domestic Labour	p. 73
Women's Participation in Waged Labour	p. 80
The Economic Crisis and the Particularities of Women's Lives	p. 86
Toward a Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the Roots of Oppression, Priorities, and Strategies	p. 91
The Problem: Invisibility and Distortion of Marginalized Women's Lives in Some Feminist Theory	p. 91
Criteria for Theoretical Adequacy and Implications for Priorities and Strategies	p. 97
Evaluation of Radical Christian Teaching on the Economy	p. 102
Towards Integrated Justice: Some Implications for Christian Feminist Economic Ethics	p. 105
Towards a Feminist Ethical Approach to Culture	p. 107
Introduction	p. 107
Culture in the Radical Christian Tradition in Canada	p. 110
Culture as a Source for Theological Ethics: Resources from Contextual and Liberation Theologies	p. 113
Critical Cultural Theories	p. 119
Towards a Critical Feminist Method of Cultural Analysis	p. 125
Appropriation of Culture in Feminist Theological Ethics	p. 128
Practices of Self Invention as Cultural Criticism and Theological Activity	p. 131
Narrative in Feminist Theological Ethics	p. 133
Criteria for a Feminist Reading of Narrative	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 140
Elided Voices in Canadian Women's Fiction: Hearing Women's Commitments to Authentic Life	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Selection of Texts	p. 144
Themes of Suffering and Empowerment: The Prairie, [Dis]placement, and Ancestors	p. 150
To Say Different: Beatrice Culleton's In Search of April Raintree	p. 151
Flowing Both Ways: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners	p. 165
The Song of Mourning is Not a Lifelong Song: Joy Kogawa's Obasan	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 193
Towards a Feminist Ethic of Solidarity in the Canadian Radical Christian Tradition	p. 199
Summary of the Study	p. 199
Theological Implications of Elided Voices in Canadian Women's Fiction	p. 207
Power and Particularity	p. 213
The Grace of Difference and Solidarity	p. 217
Selected Bibliography	p. 225
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