Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm: Being and Becoming in the Women’s Liberation Movement

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Prologue: Woman: the world’s first idol
Introduction
	Iconoclasm and violence
	Idoloclasm and the de-colonization of consciousness
	Women as captive and slave to their idea
	Women’s liberation and the liberation of God
	Smashing mirrors and other anarchies in the realm of the eternal feminine
	Is feminist idoloclasm just a second wave period piece?
	The intrication of four waves of religious and secular feminist idoloclasm
1	The appearance of the feminine
	The aestheticization of the feminine (or oppression by ‘the figures of beauty’)
	The sexual politics of female beauty
	Later feminist theorizations of female appearance
2	Idolized women
	Idolization and female celebrity
	Gynolatry and the sexual politics of romantic love
	Sex robots as new idols of the feminine
	Idolization and the face of death
3	Impossible women
	The non-existent woman
	Dangerous work: idoloclasm and the (de)realization of the female self
	Third wave idoloclasm and the re-evacuation of the female self
4	Idoloclasm in Christian feminist theology
	The dismantling of idols begins
	The early charges of idolatry
	Counter-idolatrous apophaticism in Christian feminist theology
	Marcella Althaus-Reid and the queering of idols
5	Second wave feminist Christology and Mariology in a counter-idolatrous mode
	Christolatry from a post-Christian perspective
	Idoloclastic feminist Christologies
	Second wave criticism of Mary as an idol of the feminine
	The Christian feminist defence of Mary as an icon of the feminine
6	Jewish feminist idol-breakers
	Jewish feminists and feminist Jews
	The alienation of mid-twentieth century Jewish women
	Women in search of a usable Jewish self
	Idoloclasm and Jewish cultural criticism
	Four Jewish feminist artists who broke images of women by making them
	Idoloclasm and the queerness of the Jewish self
7	Jewish feminist theology out of the idoloclastic sources of Judaism
	'Whatever is contained must be released’
	Women’s creation in God’s image, not ‘man’s’
	Making an exodus from idolatry
	The ideology of femininity in modern Jewish thought
	Procedural idoloclasm in Jewish feminist theology
8	From broken idols, a Goddess feminist self
	The reinstatement of female ‘idols’
	Excavations of the feminine
	Thealogical non-realism and the realization of a female self
	The Goddess as a counter-essentialist image of the feminine
	Thealogical Iconophilia
	Postscript: a parting of the religious feminist ways
9	After idoloclasm
	What next?
	After captivity, the open air
	'Only (re)connect’
	New directions for new selves
	Becoming (divine)
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