Sentences with phrase «womanhood in»

You are & have been an inspiration to the reawakening of true womanhood in our spheres of our own little corner of the world & to that I say thankyou.

Using recurring motifs, she celebrates the female spirituality and African womanhood in a glorious fashion commonly found in contemporary African art.

LC: Sascha, with a myriad of representations of womanhood in your painting — sometimes even haunting your painting, as you say — I wonder if breaking that insistent masculine spell is on your mind, as well?

In this image, the duality of womanhood in the characters Odile and Odette are mirrored before the viewer's eyes.

Housewife, on view at Sargent's Daughters in Lower East Side, includes a series of participatory sculptures that invites the audience to engage in performances that reenact house work, while questioning the presumptions about female identity and womanhood in society.

Current projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.

In an unforgettable style that distinguishes her within her generation, Miller once again captures womanhood in «a raw... and heartbreaking way» (Los Angeles Review of Books) and solidifies her essential role in American fiction.

Angier demystifies the workings of the female body and eradicates myriad misconcep ¬ tions about womanhood in this exacting, high - spirited exploration of the awe - inspiring complexities of female anatomy.

-- Atlanta Journal - Constitution «In her new southern memoir, Under Magnolia, Frances Mayes describes the birth of her extraordinary sensibility, the deep - pooled clarity of her writing, her giddy love of nature, and her sharp and satirical eye for those who brought her up to honorable womanhood in the tortured South of her girlhood.

The small scale intimacy of the story about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood in Sacramento feels raw and real, its cozy focus creating a universal anecdote that relives (with bittersweet affection) a part of life that's filled with constantly fluctuating highs and lows.

It's about womanhood in the 21st century.

While she respects a manhood in her husband, she requires and deserves as much respect of her womanhood in return from him.

I remember thinking that she was uniquely representing womanhood in a way that was more intriguing to me than Madonna's pitch.

Womanhood in Ghana is under serious attack!!!

Womanhood in Ghana is under threat!!!

Part of matriculating into full - fledged womanhood in my family is the establishment of a signature dish.

What is important for a woman in making this commitment and living it out is a strong sense of self - possession rooted in an awareness of her human dignity before God and the importance of the gift of her womanhood in marriage.

Lesbianism squelches the design of otherness by drowning womanhood in a sea of sameness, and in the process loses any concept of what makes the female feminine.

And I began to think about all of the incredible, brave, strong, valorous women in my life and felt an overwhelming urge to run around shouting «Eshet Chayil» over all of them, because I want them to feel empowered to continue to live out their Womanhood in the valorous ways that they ALREADY are.

When we turn to Jesus of Nazareth, we are astonished at his open and positive attitude towards womanhood in general and women in their specificity.

She sees the deep perversity of the «androgyny project» of the past thirty years that demands manhood of women and a diminution of manhood among men, but refuses to tolerate womanhood in women.

During my yearlong experiment, I interviewed a variety of women practicing biblical womanhood in different ways — an Orthodox Jew, an Amish housewife, even a polygamist family - and I combed through every commentary I could find, reexamining the stories of biblical women such as Deborah, Ruth, Hagar, Tamar, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla and Junia.

When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the word «vagina» out of my manuscript for A Year of Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less do something about it.

I didn't write the book to point - by - point go through Scripture's every mention of womanhood in an effort to prove something.

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She tells us more about womanhood in European Christian civilization than any other single figure.

In a rapid change of culture, they were pressured to find their true womanhood in the bedroom.

Lots of feminist websites have good lists of recommended writers — for example, this is an important list of Feminist Writers of Color, who discuss the intersecting issues of race, class, and womanhood in their feminist work.

Not exact matches

• And speaking of new shows... Amanda Knox, the American student who stood trial in Italy for the 2007 murder of her roommate, wants to draw attention to other women who were shamed for their sexuality and womanhood on her new show, The Scarlet Letter Reports, for Vice Media's Broadly.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

In more recent years, I've repeatedly seen the encouragement and value women have found in discovering the same things: the relief that following Christ doesn't mean forcing themselves into a box labelled «womanhood», which narrowly defines the life they should lead and sometimes restricts their gifts and callinIn more recent years, I've repeatedly seen the encouragement and value women have found in discovering the same things: the relief that following Christ doesn't mean forcing themselves into a box labelled «womanhood», which narrowly defines the life they should lead and sometimes restricts their gifts and callinin discovering the same things: the relief that following Christ doesn't mean forcing themselves into a box labelled «womanhood», which narrowly defines the life they should lead and sometimes restricts their gifts and calling.

Great observations, and fun «experiment in Biblical womanhood»!

In the 1910s and»20s (and often enough thereafter) Mother's Day served as a solace to those who feared that the «new womanhood» was threatening the very institutions of motherhood and the family.

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

Each of them, in the culmination of both plot and womanhood, manifest the family.

Rachel Held Evans is the author of «Evolving in Monkey Town» and «A Year of Biblical Womanhood.»

It was cold and raining and I was in a bad mood because the womanhood project requires that I grow out my hair, which is thick and unruly and frizzy in the rain, and so just five months into the project it looks as though a small animal has died on my head.

My goal with the project was to create something of a second naivety in order to open «biblical womanhood» up for further discussion, to, in a sense, start at the beginning again.

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical exegesis.

But when we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word (like manhood, womanhood, politics, economics, values, marriage, and even equality), we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don't fit our presuppositions.

This also means that, flowing from Mary's role in God's plan, all womanhood is sacred and sacramentally (physically and spiritually) expresses the whole created world's call to co-operate with God in bringing God's children to birth and maturity in the life of God in the image of Jesus.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

In fact, one of the more constructive criticisms I've heard from the complementarian camp is that, in the book, I did not make clear enough distinctions between how various complementarian organizations differ in their positions on biblical womanhooIn fact, one of the more constructive criticisms I've heard from the complementarian camp is that, in the book, I did not make clear enough distinctions between how various complementarian organizations differ in their positions on biblical womanhooin the book, I did not make clear enough distinctions between how various complementarian organizations differ in their positions on biblical womanhooin their positions on biblical womanhood.

It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical womanhood» project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

In my quest for biblical womanhood, I've found that sometimes there's as much to learn from what the Bible doesn't say as there is to learn from what it does say.

It is simple on paper, but not so simple in application... and so I too am left to struggle with those passages that don't seem to fit my bias and to inconsistently and imperfectly apply my own hermeneutic to the Bible and to womanhood.

Owen Strachan of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood may characterize this shift in his priorities as a «man fail,» but for us, it's working beautifully.

Rachel Held Evans, author of Evolving in Monkey Town and A Year of Biblical Womanhood (excerpted from the Foreword)

My goal in exposing this myth about «biblical womanhood» is not to berate Mark Driscoll or to suggest that Christian women everywhere should trash their skirts and blouses and break out their sweatpants and banana clips.