The emergence of francophone feminist theology

Abstract

This article traces the emergence of francophone feminist theology within the dominant paradigms of Quebec theology: modernization and liberation. Embryonic expressions of feminist theological concerns are found in women's writings in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. An examination of the writings of three senior feminist theologians (Elisabeth Lacelle, Monique Dumais, Marie Gratton Boucher) suggests that their work is shaped by the common concerns and distinctive nuances which they bring to the newly emergent feminist paradigm. Finally, it will be argued that the appearance of intergenerational tensions among women doing theology create new challenges that likely will modify the feminist paradigm.