A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics: Empowering Working Women in Cameroon

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Combining Catholic Social Teaching, feminist and African liberation theology, and the social sciences, Joseph Loc Mben, SJ, develops a contextual gendered African Christian social ethic that addresses the oppression and marginalization of working women in Sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses primarily on African women from working and poor classes living in either in urban or rural settings, particularly in Cameroon, and thus shows the necessity of inflecting Catholic Social Teaching along the differential of gender.

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Catholic teaching on labor justice is one of the best known aspects of Catholic social thought. What is less common, however, is an application of that general teaching to specific situations. In this book, Joseph Loc Mben, S.J. provides an excellent illustration of how to employ Catholic social teaching in a concrete setting; he develops an ethical methodology that is faithful to the Catholic social tradition and richly informed by the African context.

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Joseph Loc Mben is a Jesuit priest from Cameroon. He teaches bioethics and social ethics at the Jesuit Institute of Theology in Abidjan (Cote dIvoire).