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Through the Eyes of Women: Insights for Pastoral Care Paperback – June 10, 1996
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A comprehensive survey of care of women, by women, from a religious standpoint results from the collaboration of nineteen leading women in the field of pastoral care. Subjects include the role of women in pastoral theology and pastoral care, care of African American women, and of women entering ministry. The book treats anger, aggression, lesbian identities, loss of mothers, eating disorders, hysterectomy, mastectomy, rape, and older women's issues. The volume concludes with women's spiritual care, community, self-sacrifice, and self-denial.
- Print length333 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFortress Press
- Publication dateJune 10, 1996
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100800629280
- ISBN-13978-0800629281
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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 coedited a volume that transformed the field of pastoral theology, Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press, 1990). Three additional pioneering volumes followed, all with Fortress Press.
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- Publisher : Fortress Press (June 10, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 333 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0800629280
- ISBN-13 : 978-0800629281
- Item Weight : 1.18 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,795 in Christian Pastoral Counseling
- #5,803 in Christian Pastoral Resources (Books)
- #7,674 in Christian Women's Issues
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About the author
Rev. Dr. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Rev. Dr. Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Professor of Pastoral Care at Perkins School of Theology [Southern Methodist University], an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA), a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology, a Henry Luce III Fellow, and a former Chair of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She was a Resident Member at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton (2012), President of the SMU Faculty Senate (2016-2017) and a member of the SMU Board of Trustees (2016-2017). She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Jeanne has taught at Columbia Theological Seminary, The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, and as Visiting Faculty at The University of Luzern, Switzerland (2012). She served three years on the American Academy of Religion’s Theological Education Committee.
Jeanne has been on the Board of Trustees at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis where a classroom was named in her honor. She is currently a member of the Pastoral Care Advisory Board at Children’s Health, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
She co-edited a volume which transformed the field of pastoral theology - Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press). Jeanne is the editor of three additional pioneering volumes in pastoral care of women along with six additional books, the two most recent of which are Portable Roots: Transplanting the Bicultural Child (2014) and Overture to Practical Theology: The Music of Religious Inquiry (2016). Her book The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God’s Family received an award from the Academy of Parish Clergy, and she was honored in 2010 with The American Association of Pastoral Counselor’s Distinguished Achievement in Research and Writing Award.
Jeanne has trained in rape crisis centers, a child abuse council, an addictive disease unit, four domestic violence programs, and a community mental health clinic. Her classes at Perkins often include a training component in Dallas programs and centers that address the above issues.
Jeanne’s husband, Dr. David P. Moessner, currently holds the A.A.Bradford Chair of Religion at Texas Christian University. Jeanne and Dave have a wonderful daughter, Jean (26), a beloved son, David, who passed away in January of 2015, and two precious granddaughters.
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If you can believe this, I went to bed with a cold. I took this book with me. I never put it down. I read the entire book in one evening, and while reading it, I kept saying, "WOW."
Throughout, they seek to write pastoral theology and offer pastoral care from a "feminist sensibility" or that is "female-friendly." Beyond this-and this is the importance of the web metaphor-they seek to overcome individualistic biases in pastoral theology and pastoral care & counseling inherited from various psychological traditions and begin to bring to bear sex, race, and class analyses on particular care situations. While urging those in care professions to attune themselves to issues specific to the individual women who seek care (and urging women to develop the capacity for self-love in balance with self-giving or -sacrificial love), the authors also name the importance of seeing the individual women within influences of a larger socio-cultural context. More than this, they often exhort the importance of seeing pastoral care engage in systemic change.
Almost all the authors write as white, middle-class, and Protestant women who hope their contributions will encourage others to respond from various racial/ethnic and social locations. Overall, this is an important and helpful contribution to the field both theoretically and practically.