After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation

Brief Description: Written from an informed Christian perspective by a team of scholars representing a wide variety of academic disciplines, this wide-ranging book discusses the history of feminism in its Christian and secular forms and takes an in-depth look at the relationship of gender to various cultural and social institutions.

Contributor Bio:  Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is professor of psychology and philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. She taught at Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan) for many years, and she has been a senior editor of Christianity Today. Currently she is a contributing editor for Books & Culture. Van Leeuwen has written, cowritten, and contributed to several books, includingThe Psychology of Intergroup Relations (with L. Kidder, McGraw-Hill, 1975), The Person in Psychology (Eerdmans, 1985), After Eden (one of several contributors, Eerdmans, 1993), Religion, Feminism & the Family (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1996), The Family Handbook (co-editor, Westminster John Knox, 1998) and Women and the Future of the Family (with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Mardi Keyes and Stanley Grenz, Baker, 2000). Contributor Bio:  Sterk, Helen M Helen Sterk (Ph. D., University of Iowa) is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Director of the Gender Studies Minor at Calvin College. She was appointed to Calvin College's William Spoelhof Teacher Scholar Chair in 1997. Dr. Sterk has written widely on rhetoric, feminism, gender, and popular culture and has co-authored or co-edited several books, including her most recent collaboration, Who's Having This Baby? Perspectives on Birthing (Michigan State University Press, 2002), as well as "Differences That Make a Difference" (edited with Lynn Turner; Bergin & Garvey, 1994) and "Constructing and Reconstructing Gender" (edited with Linda A. M. Perry and Lynn Turner; State University of New York Press, 1992). Her work has been published in journals, such as the "Western Journal of Communication" and the "Journal of Communication", and in edited collections, such as "Evaluating Women s Health Messages: A Resourcebook" (SAGE, 1996) and "In My Father s House: Rhetoric and Religion in the Post-Modern South" (University of Alabama Press, forthcoming). She currently serves on three editorial boards. She also has served as President for the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender and the Religious Communication Association, as Chapter President for the American Association of University Professors, and as a member of the state executive board for the AAUP (Michigan). Contributor Bio:  Schuurman, Douglas J Professor of religion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Among his other books isCreation, Eschaton, and Ethics.