Sentences with phrase «for centuries women»

As Linda Nochlin famously pointed out in 1971, for centuries women were excluded from even attending the academies, never able to learn the skill - sets and tools of painting, and were persona non grata among those who defined the status quo and controlled the flow of ideas and capital.

For centuries women have been trying different foods to see if anything helped increase milk production.

For centuries women have given birth with the support and understanding of elder women who have the life experience to guide the labouring woman through her birth.

: For centuries women have used moisturizers such as coconut oil and aloe to try to prevent stretch marks.

Moisturize: For centuries women have used moisturizers such as coconut oil and aloe to try to prevent stretch marks.

For centuries women have given birth and they never had so many cables connected to their bodies.

Noddings describes how for centuries women have been seen as leading men to evil, as themselves embodying evil.

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Leader - Chivée further notes that it's been a quarter century since Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas - and yet inappropriate conduct in the workplace is still a real concern for many women.

A woman of the 21st century, the things she needs to do business are largely digital: a LinkedIn profile (updated regularly with her latest achievements), a clear and instructive PowerPoint presentation, a snappy hashtag for optimal Twitter traction.

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

After nearly a century making men's razors, Gillette released the Sensor for women: identical blades, but with a wider, «easier to hang onto» handle.

Women have been speaking their painful truths for centuries, only to be met with a dark silence — or worse, told that they «asked for it,» or were only making these accusations to get money or fame.

«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

It was a year where women marched for their freedom, where they spoke out against centuries of sexual harassment, and where women demanded equal pay.

Russian women, despite their former revolutionary fervor, typically receive flowers and chocolates from their significant others, having traded Soviet war songs for romantic dinners in the latter part of the twentieth century.

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In Russia, where Women's Day is a century - old holiday that trumps Valentine's Day in importance, men will be rushing to arrange at times extravagant celebrations for the women in their lWomen's Day is a century - old holiday that trumps Valentine's Day in importance, men will be rushing to arrange at times extravagant celebrations for the women in their lwomen in their lives.

So he did what any 21st century rabbi would do and took his plea to the Internet, saying he was looking for a good younger woman with better copayment figures.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

Well if it's slightly more evidence of the existence of a man outside of Italy in the 1st century who was born of a virgin, died for 3 days before resurrecting himself, then explained he only died because of «original sin» which is the idea that a woman ate magical apple given from a talking snake in a garden at the beginning of time which caused all humans to go to hell when they died.

Gouden Carolus Easter — The Gouden Carolus brewery traces its roots back to 15th century Belgium when Christian women were responsible for brewing beer and lived in communal settings known as Beguines.

For centuries, the role of women in the church has been a subdued one, with many limitations.

Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

In our preaching of the gospel we must get at it, present its «offense,» in such a fashion that it is a challenge to decision for men and women who live in the middle half of the twentieth century.

The 19th - century black feminist Sojourner Truth was one of the first to understand the significance for women of this intimate relation between God and Mary.

At the end of the day, women, Catholic or not, are not going to vote for someone who is interested in sending them back to the 17th century so no, I don't believe Obama is going to lose the Catholic vote unless they didn't vote for him the last time.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

Cf. «Women Clergy for Rome» by Rosemary Lauer, The Christian Century, Vol.

For centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against womFor centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against womfor what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against women.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

Tradition has not carried much weight in public debate for centuries: Why, many will ask, preserve an archaic institution that has long oppressed women, excluded gays, and given free rein to brutes?

For centuries, women have been stoned, burned at the stake, murdered in honor killings and more for spiritual dariFor centuries, women have been stoned, burned at the stake, murdered in honor killings and more for spiritual darifor spiritual daring.

The accusation that the Church by the masculine nature of the language it has used of God has for centuries reflected and reinforced a patriarchal society, which has shut out female forms of self - representation and seen women in terms of male desire, is hard to refute.

Women have been leading and teaching religion for centuries.

It could be your mother, your sister, your wife, your best friend, your Sunday school teacher from long ago, a pastor, a mentor, a saint from centuries past, or even a woman you met for only a few minutes but whose presence changed you.

In the second century, the pagan Celsus criticized Christianity, saying it was a religion for «the foolish, dishonorable, and stupid... and only slaves, women, and little children.»

No mention is made of the past century's great movements of liberation, or the worldwide women s movement, or struggles for freedom and human rights.

Consequently, because women are rejecting the idea that family itself is more important than one's own physical well - being, the violence that has been hidden for centuries is finally being talked about, and emerging into public view, And that's the very sore «problem» called «family violence» of which we're becoming increasingly aware.

Women have been ordained in other Protestant denominations for decades (in the case of the Unitarians and Universalists, centuries).

I'm still searching for information on what atheists communities were doing for the poor women of Ireland over the last century.

ESPECIALLY where it concerns women, whom the church has considered unclean second - class citizens for centuries... EXCEPT if they are married and procreating yearly and obeying their husbands.

Early in the century «day nurseries» were provided for immigrant children, and day - care centers sprang up during both world wars to accommodate the children of women working to support the war efforts.

If some of the events were reproduced in the internet age that would be compelling, you know water into wine, woman into salt, men living for centuries, man living in a large fish, etc. etc..

Thirdly, women's groups in Asia should work close together in searching for a new vision for future, because it is apparent that the world in the 21st century should not be like the one we live in now.

Rather than consider that Paul's writings on women might have been culturally (mis) interpreted for centuries, Mollenkott instead concludes that some of Paul's arguments reflect his «rabbinical training and human limitations.

Another influential sixth - century monastic, Caesarea of Arles, wrote, «The souls not only of nuns, but of all men and women, if they will guard chastity of the body and virginity of the heart... should not doubt that they are spouses of Christ,» and he put forward the spiritual marriage to Jesus in Heaven as reason for remaining celibate while on earth.

Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.