Sentences with word «femaleness»

When holiness is equated to masculinity, it is rather difficult to side - step notions of femaleness — or «femininity» — as ontological inferiority...»

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

Maleness is completed by femaleness and vice versa.

Recent papers on process thought and feminism have used the term «androgynous to depict the range of maleness / femaleness expressed in both humans and God.1 In a similar sense, «gynandrous» has been proposed.2 To be sure, the aim is to capture, by means of an appropriate term, the rich texture of human differences, that one is neither strictly «female» or «male» but a creative combination of the qualities historically assigned to both.

By HELEN HASTE History, literature and two thousand years of stand - up comics show us countless ways in which Western culture is ambivalent about femaleness and the feminine — and particularly about female sexuality.

Those who favor women's ordination argue that women can represent Christ as well as men because femaleness is an attribute along the lines of Jewishness.

In fact there are no «opposite sexes,» only a gender spectrum between femaleness and maleness (hence the prefix «trans -» in «transgender»), and one may choose to identify oneself with any point on the continuum, or to remain undecided.

Occasionally, in conversations about God and gender, someone will attempt to conclude the matter by noting that Jesus was a man, as though the incarnation proves something about the gender of God or the ultimate superiority of maleness over femaleness.

A counselor can be liberating, either for women or for men, only if his or her attitude towards femaleness and maleness, toward «femininity» and «masculinity,» is subjected to continuing self - examination.

But beyond satisfying each other's physical needs, there is the context of those needs, the sexuality of each person; the maleness and femaleness which colors one's whole being.

We have for centuries made the mistake of equating femaleness and male - ness, which are biological terms, with femininity and masculinity which are cultural terms.

During the present transition period and until new definitions of maleness and femaleness emerge (probably allowing for much greater variety in roles among different couples) there is bound to be some confusion for the developing boy and girl.

Mary's femaleness matters.

And with this solution to the first issue I could turn to the second — namely, the practice of surgically assigning femaleness to male newborns who at birth had malformed, sexually ambiguous genitalia and severe phallic defects.

Those who insist the Church ordain women to elevate their status are, in reality, denigrating femaleness, especially motherhood.

He followed up sixteen genetic males with cloacal exstrophy seen at Hopkins, of whom fourteen underwent neonatal assignment to femaleness socially, legally, and surgically.

We do not deny our maleness and femaleness when we are together, but we do not allow it to be the lone descriptor of our friendship.

In such an outlook, evil is always alien to true femaleness.

He sat there with me, never even blinked at my rampant femaleness, and gave me solid business advice, peer - to - peer.

This episode explores how female villains in games very often function to demonize femaleness itself, drawing on patterns of female representation that have roots in creatures from myth -LSB-...]

This notion of playful bifurcation — or the understanding that the self is a fractured and multifarious process and product of becoming, scattered across both the artist's representation and the sitter's own performance of it — calls attention to the hybrid foundations that define Black femaleness and beauty in today's world.

It's a dark, accurate portrait of contemporary, feminism - free femaleness.

In Mutu's visual language, these mythological siren figures disarm us, and we can consider femaleness and blackness beyond the confines of the historical gaze.»

About major themes in her work, Semmel states, «While my work developed through series, the connecting thread across decades is a single perspective: being inside the experience of femaleness and taking possession of it culturally.»

Recent papers on process thought and feminism have used the term «androgynous to depict the range of maleness / femaleness expressed in both humans and God.1 In a similar sense, «gynandrous» has been proposed.2 To be sure, the aim is to capture, by means of an appropriate term, the rich texture of human differences, that one is...

History, literature and two thousand years of stand - up comics show us countless ways in which Western culture is ambivalent about femaleness and the feminine — and particularly about female sexuality.

Something in our male «and «femaleness «together pulls back the veil on what God is like.

Consequently, a proper «theology of the finite» will have to incorporate a respect for the ways in which women and men perceive their femaleness and maleness — however distorted and partial those perceptions may eventually turn out to be.

We recognize the force of cultural influences and individual choice on concepts of maleness and femaleness, but we affirm that sexuality is rooted in the biological designation of the two sexes» male and female.

«As a people - pleasing person, it was so difficult for me to tell others I was a pastor knowing that my femaleness would immediately cause them to reject me.

But if a woman, by emphasising her femaleness, capitalises on her particular power of attraction, she will provoke the mere male instinct; men will be attracted to her, or rather to her body, out of simple physical sexual desire.

Man without the inspiration of femininity is lost; he has no heroine to worship, no queen to serve; he is left with just the stimulus of femaleness, and no ideal with which to counterbalance his sensuality and so learn to be humbly strong in the service of others.

So long as I am not «in - his - face» (his words) with my femaleness, it will be easier for him to treat me as someone worth learning from; it will be easier for him to treat me like a man.

And that's what those who insist that maleness and femaleness are «cultural constructs,» not givens that disclose deep truths about the human condition, deny.

Do these traits pair with male and female because of biological maleness and femaleness, or because of the social formation of gender in patriarchal society?

Long traditions of calling God «Father,» together with cultural biases that value maleness more than femaleness, are at work.

relationship can be one of joy both in satisfying the other and in receiving satisfaction from the other, can strengthen the maleness and femaleness of the partners, thereby strengthening the marriage.

The femaleness in a wife brings out the maleness in a husband, and vice versa.

One of the tragedies of our culture has been a too complete separation of maleness and femaleness.

Kinda hard to ignore that even the very earliest record speaks of the maleness and femaleness of the godhead.

We would honor the maleness and the femaleness of creation, aware that in this union is a sacrament of life itself and that in this vision is life - giving wholeness.

Body alienation weakens one's sexuality — the general feelings and affirmation of one's maleness or femaleness — and diminishes one's sexual pleasuring.

Hence the powerful challenge from revisionists: if the generation of life is no longer an important component of marriage, then why should maleness and femaleness be essential?

Consciousness - raising in groups reverses this negative conditioning, helping women «take pride and delight in our femaleness.

My femininity, my femaleness, the woman I am, is central to who I am, is central to who God created me to be.

The models of maleness / femaleness and parenting absorbed by teens from their parents must be reshaped drastically to be useful in the new world of relationships that is emerging.

That is the biblical promise of marriage, that there is a place — neither in maleness nor in femaleness, but somewhere in between — where a man and a woman can meet and be truly joined.

He would have found out quickly that the focus involved in trying to beat her would have taken all of his attention off of her femaleness.

As for the «maleness» of Ellen De Generes et al or the femaleness of Jude Law... oops not gay (yeah right)... it matters not.

Simply to say that you can have a woman - plus - woman marriage or a man - plus - man marriage is radically to change that because of the givenness of maleness and femaleness.