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The Dilemma of Difference: A Feminist Theological Exploration

The focus of this conference upon Anthropology and Contemporary Culture is of special significance to feminists generally and to feminist theologians in particular. Making sense of the human person may be said to be an underlying, if not always an obvious theme in contemporary feminist writing. Images of personhood are held up to the test of women’s experiences. Patterns of human life are examined for their impact upon women’s consciousness and upon social interactions. Theories of human being are scrutinized for their assumptions about women. This work clearly has a moral dimension, as feminists seek to promote the value of women’s standpoints, and a political dimension, as we search for new ways of living together in human community. From my examination of feminist writings, I would want to claim that the impulse to speak truthfully about the human person, in all of the complexity and the subtlety which that requires, is central to the work and thought of feminism. Feminist theologians have learned much from sharing in this