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Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.〔http://www.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/facultypages/sfloydthomas.php〕 Floyd-Thomas is a Womanist Christian social ethicist whose research interests include Womanist thought, Black Church Studies, liberation theology and ethics, critical race theory, critical pedagogy and postcolonial studies.〔 Specifically, her work addresses tripartite oppression and religious responses to these forms of oppression.〔 Race, class and gender are three social categories that contribute to the oppression of black women, and Floyd-Thomas' work addresses how religious commitments, particularly Christian sensibilities, work to either ameliorate these forms of oppression, or perpetuate them. == Womanist Thought == In the late 1960s and 1970s, theological education was fundamentally altered through the development of black liberation theology, most notably the work of theologian James Hal Cone. Cone, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, espoused a theological program that connected the black liberation struggle to the New Testament idea that God has a preferential option for the poor. Thus, God is "on the side of the oppressed."〔James Cone. ''A Black Theology of Liberation: 20th Anniversary Edition'' Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990.〕 Placing this idea within the context of the historic struggle for black liberation from the oppression of enslavement, Jim and Jane Crow laws, and continued racism, Cone's work placed a premium on experience as a source for "doing" theology.〔 Yet, the experiences reflected upon by Cone and others were notably absent of black women's voices. To a large extent, Womanist thought developed as the corrective to this within black theology and ethics. In the early 1980s, Katie Geneva Cannon, Jacqueline Grant, and Delores Williams were students at Union Theological Seminary, whose teachers included James Cone, Beverly Harrison and others. Just as Cone's black theology was noticeably absent of women's voices and experiences, Harrison's work centered around the perspective of white women. In both cases, the experiences of black women were subsumed into the experiences of either black men or white women. Cannon, Grant and Williams, while appreciating the work of early liberationists like Cone and Harrison, sought a way to frame their own experiences as black women. They found such a frame in Alice Walker's ''In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose'' (1984). Walker defined "Womanist" in a four-part definition,〔''In Search of Our Mother's Garden: Womanist Prose'' Harvest Books, 1984.〕 that set the black female experience in contradistinction to both white women and black men. Using this frame, Womanist theology and ethics was born through the work of Cannon, Williams, and Grant. Floyd-Thomas' work continues this Womanist scholarship started in theology and ethics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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