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Tekeli, Gökc̦e

English

2013

M.A.

This thesis explores the literary theologies ofElizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It argues that liberation through religion in the turn of the century is women's gate to survival through re-definition of woman - not as a physical embodiment of a biblical symbol but as a corporeal, sexual and emotional being. This study contributes to feminist theological studies both because it brings history, politics and religion together in its focus on the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century women authors in America, but also because it brings three different genres (novel, short fiction, and non-fiction) together to challenge and question woman in text.