Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.

Anna Mercedes is professor of theology in the College of Saint Benedict of Saint John's University. Her teaching and research take up feminist theology and gender as well as various loci in systematic theology. She is author of Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving (T&T Clark, 2011).