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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
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Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, best known for her "God of the Breasts" interpretation of El Shaddai, spent her 44-year professional career teaching college level English literature and language, but developed specializations in feminist theology and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender theology during the second half of that career.[1]
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1 Personal life
2 Education
3 Career
4 Writing
4.1 Editting
5 Awards
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Personal life[edit]
She was born in Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital on January 28, 1932; married Frederick H. Mollenkott on June 17, 1954; had a son, Paul F. Mollenkott, on July 3, 1958; and was divorced in July 1973.[1] A Democrat and trans-religious Christian, Mollenkott lives with her domestic partner Judith Suzannah Tilton at Cedar Crest Retirement Village; together they co-grandmother Virginia's three granddaughters.[2][3]
Education[edit]
She earned her B.A. from fundamentalist Bob Jones University in 1953; her M.A. at Temple University in 1955; her Ph.D. at New York University in 1964; and received an honorary Doctorate in Ministries from Samaritan College in 1989.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
She chaired the English Department at Shelton College, Ringwood, New Jersey, from 1955–1963 and at Nyack College, from 1963-1967. She then taught at William Paterson University from 1967 to 1997, chairing the English Department from 1972–1976 and since 1997 holding the position of Professor of Englih Emeritus.[1][2][3]
Mollenkott served as an assistant editor of Seventeenth Century News from 1965–1975;
as a stylistic consultant for the New International Version of the Bible for the American Bible Society from 1970–1978. Mollenkott became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) in 1977.[4] WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. She also was a member of the translation committee for An Inclusive Language Lectionary for the National Council of Churches from 1980–1988. 1980-1990, she was on the Board of Pacem in Terris, Warwick, New York. Starting in 1989 through 1994, Mollenkott served on the Board of the Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Harlem, New York. For over a decade she was on the Board of Kirkridge Retreat and Conference Center, Bangor, PA starting in 1980. She held a seat on the Advisory Board of the Program on Gender and Society at the Rochester (New York) Divinity School from 1993–1996. She started as a manuscript evaluator for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion in 1994 and has continued into the present. She worked as a contributing editor to The Witness from 1994 to 2000. Since 1997 she has served on the editorial board of Studies in Theology and Sexuality, based in the United Kingdom. She was also a contributing editor to The Other Side from 2003-2007. She has delivered hundreds of guest lectures on feminist and LGBT theologies at churches, conferences, universities and seminaries throughout the United States.[5]
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