God Images and Self Esteem: Empowering Women in a Patriarchal Society

by Carroll Saussy

Book Overview

Carroll Saussy believes that women, especially, have difficulty with self-esteem because their lives are shaped and controlled by patriarchal rules and roles that make them second-class citizens. Only in recent decades and in highly educated or politically active communities have women awakened to and begun to expose the damaging effects of the domination-subordination soul of patriarchy. Saussy takes a theological and ideological approach in reviewing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664251994
• ISBN13: 9780664251994
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 8.1"