Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Carol J. Adams is author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, now in a twentieth-anniversary edition, as well as other books including The Pornography of Meat (2004), Prayers for Animals (2004), Living among Meat-Eaters, and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism. With Josephine Donovan, she has edited three collections of essays about connections between women and the other animals, the most recent is The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader. She travels to campuses to show The Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show, a 75-minute multimedia presentation that provides an overview of the cultural attitudes that sexualize and feminize the other animals and animalize and racialize women, as well as analyzing the interconnections of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and speciesism Her four-legged companions are Inky and Holly. www.caroljadams.com [cja@caroljadams.com]
Xochitl Alvizo is a feminist Christian-identified theologian. She is a PhD candidate in Practical Theology at Boston University School of Theology; her research focuses on new and postmodern forms of church. Xochitl is cofounder and codirector of Feminism and Religion (www.feminismandreligion.com), an international project that explores the “F-word” in religion and the intersection between scholarship, activism, and community. She is also cofounder and lead facilitator of The Pub Church in Boston, an innovative (Christian) church that meets in a pub. In the last two years of Mary Daly’s life, Xochitl and three of her friends became friends with Mary Daly and served as her assistants. [xalvizo@bu.edu]
Melissa Browning is an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Program Director for the master’s degree in Social Justice and Community Development at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. Her work focuses primarily on sexual ethics and bioethics. She just finished a year of fieldwork with HIV-positive women in Mwanza, Tanzania, on Christian marriage in light of HIV and AIDS. The book being published out of this project, When Marriage Becomes Risky: Reflections from Tanzania on Christian Marriage in an HIV-Positive World, will be published by Lexington Books (Rowman Littlefield) in 2012. Additional information about Melissa’s work can be found at her website: www.melissabrowning.com [mbrowni@luc.edu] [End Page 149]
Ezra Chitando serves as Theology Consultant on HIV and AIDS for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA). He has researched and published within the area of religion and HIV. His research interests include method and theory in the study of religion, masculinities and religion, and African Indigenous Religions. [chitsa21@yahoo.com]
Emily Erwin Culpepper is Professor Emerita of Women’s & Gender Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA. The WGST program created The Dr. Emily Culpepper Award for Outstanding Work in Women’s & Gender Studies for students combining academics and activism, in honor of her retirement as the program’s founding director. She received both her MDiv (1974) and ThD (1983) at Harvard Divinity School, where she was also a cofounder of the Women’s Inspirational Theology Conspiracy from Harvard (W.I.T.C.H.). Emily has been a lifelong social justice activist, beginning with teenage work against segregation in her hometown, Macon, Georgia. She lives in Pomona, CA, with her spouse, Dr. Janet Lake. [emily_culpepper@redlands.edu]
Margaret A. Farley is Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School. She is the author or coeditor of seven books, including Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing; Compassionate Respect; and most recently, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. She has published more than 100 articles and chapters of books on topics of ethical methodology, medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality, and justice and HIV/AIDS. She is currently also codirector of the All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister, an organization that facilitates the work of women in the sub-Sahara responding to the AIDS Pandemic. [margaret.farley@yale.edu]
Mary E. Hunt, PhD, is a feminist Catholic theologian and codirector of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Hunt lectures and writes on theology...
