No other criticism, even the profound analysis
by feminists of the patriarchy in which we all participate, has challenged my thinking as much as this.
But championed
by the feminists of the New York art world in the 1970s, and then embraced by such curatorial powerhouses as Robert Storr, she became well known as she entered her seventies.
Not exact matches
When details
of her self - titled 2013 album were originally leaked earlier that year under the moniker Mrs. Carter, it was panned
by some critics for its foreshadowed embrace
of the artist's still - new identity as hip - hop mogul Sean «Jay - Z» Carter's wife rather than the trailblazing
feminist icon who coined powerful female anthems like Irreplaceable, Single Ladies and Independent Women from her Destiny's Child days.
It's chock full
of a contradictory mix
of highly shareable, mostly advertiser - friendly clickbait content, BuzzFeed - style lists, flowchart infographics that help men decide whether or not to catcall a woman in public and a growing crop
of articles written
by prominent
feminists.
Since its 2008 debut, the toy's innocuous curve has graced sponsorship banners for an annual sexuality conference at the University
of Guelph and the
feminist led Momentum gathering in Washington, D.C.. There, couples in search
of a bedroom rejuvenator learn that open sexual communication — aided
by the We - Vibe,
of course — leads to stronger marriages and better dispositions.
Kelly, who has become something
of a
feminist icon thanks to her tangles with GOP nominee Donald Trump, is seen
by many inside Fox as the future
of the network.
Led
by a
feminist Prime Minister who campaigned on a promise
of inclusive growth, Canada is well placed to become a global leader in tackling the twin struggles
of gender and economic inequality.
He first notes that the Christian concept
of God as Father has been under attack» much
of the attack coming from Catholics influenced
by feminist psychology.
The Decline
of Males, his 1999 book, was particularly controversial among
feminists for its argument that female contraceptives had altered the balance between the sexes in disturbing new ways (especially
by taking from men any say in whether they could have children).
Apologists for science have become alarmed at the fact that science is questioned within the academy itself,
by historians
of science and
feminists.
I shun labels
of all kinds but am identified
by others as a
feminist, so often people will ask me if I think God is a man or a woman.
Yet he is so far behind the heterodoxy curve as to be unaware that his shattering innovations are little more that the platitudes
of New Age suburbia, and have long been superseded
by those «weekend spirituality workshops» in which
feminist nuns and retired orthodontists are taught how to deconstruct the New Testament and make pumpkin bread.»
The
feminist position springs not from the premise
of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would preclude such partisan perversions
of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink
of water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect act
by a man is a glass
of poison.
As every cause must have its antithesis, the movement has been greatly energized
by radical
feminist hostility to the family as an oppressive institution, and, more recently,
by homosexual agitations to relativize the meaning
of marriage and family
by the formal recognition
of same - sex unions.
That may be why,
by and large, neither theologians nor ecclesiastical hierarchs have taken seriously the challenge
of reformist feminism within the church or radical
feminist religion without.
The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance
by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system
by minorities and
feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues
of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.
As Ruether and others have observed, whatever may be said
of the goddess worship
of antiquity, or medieval witchcraft, contemporary revolutionary
feminist religion has,
by its own admission, created itself as a new entity.
I learned this not from a class in
feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world
by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary
of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said
of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory
of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility
of announcing the start
of a new creation,
of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.
Kirk begins
by arguing that the roots
of the
feminist position lie in Enlightenment thinking incompatible with Christianity.
Second, an increasing number
of feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification
by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.
With the help
of feminist theory, she demonstrates how this drama
of justification all too often «misses the mark»
of women's lives — lives that are very often marked not
by boastful arrogance but rather
by an inadequate sense
of personal agency.
By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky
feminist problem
of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.
Jones creatively links Calvin's descriptions to that
of feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, who speaks
of «the dissolving woman,» ravaged and undone
by demeaning relations with others and structures
of domination that surround her.
Many women have responded
by listening, and with affirmation and encouragement, jus as Sian has done with saying she longs to be critiqued, does not want to have critique held back from her for her being a woman and was appropriate in affirming the critique
of the «
feminist» interpretation
of scripture I made as described.
Yes it was written
by men 2000 years and above ago in a different culture but that doesn't mean that it supports patriarchal oppression any more than a book written
by Germain Greer at the height
of the
feminist movement's popularity is sexist and supports matriarchal oppression.
Lately, having been dubbed a «dangerous
feminist»
by some
of my more conservative brothers and sisters in the Church, I've been pondering all the things that make me lousy
feminist.
I too, as a virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism as Leah is, can only ponder tha Kantean imperitives
of vanilla dualism
by mean
of the French
feminist approached to hermaneutics.
On Downton Abbey, we see that the way
of life
of the relational place is being improved
by middle - class, American, Irish, socialist, and even proto -
feminist contributions, but usually not at the expense
of «class» in the sense
of knowing who you are and what you're supposed to do.
It was
by way
of engaging with a woman taking a «
feminist approach» (her words) to the abuse
of women in the church using the rape
of Tamar and the narrative about Lot asking those that wanted to rape the men to have the women instead as proof texts.
Three decades before the current writing
by feminist therapists, she was publishing papers challenging the blatantly patriarchal presuppositions
of Freud.
For most
feminists, this means no strict gender roles or a hierarchy that demands a man be the authority over a woman just because he's a man and that a woman be submissive and quiet just because she's a woman.Feminism means allowing both women and men to be themselves as God created them to be — as individuals, not defined
by their reproductive system but rather
by their personalities, their relationships, their definitions
of themselves.
This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light
of contemporary
feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use
of Marxist sociology
by Latin American theologians
of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.
Since its origins, many white
feminists have taken seriously the critiques
of race and class initially raised
by womanist theologians.
The acceptance
of women at West Point, Annapolis and the Air Force Academy has been hailed as a victory
by many
feminists, as well as
by people who are concerned about the quality and quantity
of career military personnel.
Recent years have dipped me into the wisdom
of sages like
feminist theorist Judith McDaniel who warn that trying to be «nice» on terms set
by those who hold the power in place is to «sell ourselves short.»
If you're interested in contemporary /
feminist midrash, don't miss The Five Books
of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, edited
by Ellen Frankel, which offers creative contemporary womens» response to Torah.
The key to its success has been the
feminist recognition that, while any set
of outside motives can be brought to a discipline, it can only persuade
by following the canons
of logic, evidence and argument that obtain within the discipline.
The thesis
of the book was that the progress made
by first wave
feminists («the old suffragettes») had plateaued.
Indeed, one
of the oldest stories written about abortion — Maria: or, The Wrongs
of Woman written
by feminist forerunner Mary Wollstonecraft and published posthumously
by her husband William Godwin in 1798 — accomplishes precisely that.
She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency
of a national
feminist association to a rival supported
by Feinberg.
From the exposes
of the illusions
of modern conscious rationality
by Freud, Marx and Nietzsche through contemporary
feminist theory, modernity has been forced to rethink its Enlightenment heritage on both reason and.
One such group
of feminists fears that the censoring
of sexually explicit materials would violate the constitutional guarantee
of freedom
of speech and backfire on women
by permitting the censorship
of feminist speech.
For instance,
feminists disagree on the interpretation
of Swept Away, a Lina Wertmuller film that portrays an upper - class woman who is sexually dominated
by her servant and who eventually begins to enjoy the domination.
Korean
feminist theologian Chung Hyun Kyung writes eloquently
of a framework for knowing inscribed
by Asian women's experience
of suffering:
And Zora Neale Hurston, one
of the most renowned Afro - American woman writers, wrote reactionary essays (some
of which appeared in the Reader's Digest) and gave her allegiance to the Republican Party — facts often overlooked
by her contemporary
feminist followers.
This lack is doubly troubling for the woman writer who is a
feminist, because feminism as a movement for transforming patriarchal structures and relations
of domination understands change in a quite different way from that
of the individualistic biographic tradition presupposed
by the question
of how one's «mind has changed.»
The appearance
of Susan Moller Okin's study
of Western political philosophy, Women in Political Thought, helped me to address theoretically this challenge
of «Third World» women
by developing a
feminist systemic analysis that can distinguish between androcentric dualism and patriarchy.
Although friendship is not possible among all
feminists, the work
of Be-Friending can be shared
by all, and all can benefit from this Metamorphospheric activity.
It allowed me to reconceptualize the study
of «women in the Bible,»
by moving from what men have said about women to a
feminist historical reconstruction
of early Christian origins as well as
by articulating a
feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.
While I in no way wish to say that Daly's or Raymond's views need validation from a «dead, white male philosopher,» I do believe, first
of all, that Whiteheadian philosophy will be enhanced
by the incorporation
of women's experience (inclusive
of feminist philosophy as part
of women's experience).