Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 FEMINIST THEOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS -- Textual Hermeneutics: Sandra Schneiders -- A Feminist Ethic: Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Anthropology: Martha Nussbaum -- A Proposed Feminist Hermeneutical Method -- 2 THE COMMON GOOD IN THE THOUGHT OF THOMAS AQUINAS -- Background -- The Anthropology of Aquinas in Relation to the Common Good -- The Good -- The Human Good -- The Common Good -- The Relationship between the Individual Good and the Common Good -- Justice and the Common Good -- Examples of the Common Good in Aquinas -- Conclusion -- 3 A FEMINIST RETRIEVAL OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMON GOOD -- Experience, and the Experience of Women -- Anthropology -- Historical Consciousness and Embodiment -- Aquinas and the Common Good -- The Individual Good and the Retrieved Principle of the Common Good -- Justice and the Common Good -- Conclusion -- 4 THE RETRIEVED PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMON GOOD AND HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES -- The Changed Reality of Health Care in the United States -- U.S. Attitudes toward Treatment and Death -- Health Care as an Element of the Common Good -- Social Values in the United States -- U.S. Health Care Today -- Women and Health Care in the United States -- Black Women and Breast Cancer -- The Functioning of the Retrieved Principle of the Common Good -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

To dismiss the work of philosophers and theologians of the past because of their limited perceptions of the whole of humankind is tantamount to tossing the tot out with the tub water. Such is the case when feminist scholars of religion and ethics confront Thomas Aquinas, whose views of women can only be described as misogynistic. Rather than dispense with him, Susanne DeCrane seeks to engage Aquinas and reflect his otherwise compelling thought through the prism of feminist theology, hermeneutics, and ethics.Focusing on one of Aquinas's great intellectual contributions, the fundamental notion of "the common good"-in short, the human will toward peace and justice-DeCrane demonstrates the currency of that notion through a contemporary social issue: women's health care in the United States and, specifically, black women and breast cancer. In her skillful re-engagement with Aquinas, DeCrane shows that certain aspects of religious traditions heretofore understood as oppressive to women and minority groups can actually be parsed, "retrieved," and used to rectify social ills. Aquinas, Feminism, and the Common Good is a bold and intellectually rigorous feminist retrieval of an important text by a Catholic scholar seeking to remain in the tradition, while demanding that the tradition live up to its emphasis on human equity and justice.

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