Sentences with phrase «identity as a woman»

With full blessing from her husband, she became more invested in her identity as a woman who exercised control in the bedroom.

Perhaps I could say now in retrospect that my being drawn to the study and development of a process mode of thinking may also have been related to an unconscious awareness that it offered me not only a more viable theological and philosophical framework than any other, but also an opportunity to integrate my identity as a woman within a religious framework.

I didn't want my identity as a woman to be swallowed up in my identity as a wife.

Others, however, keep reaching for a new balance between their identity as women and as ministers.

I used to consider myself a feminist — I think because I was searching for my true identity as a woman.

I also know the feeling that your identity as a woman will forever be in sweats, a t - shirt, and ponytail.

«When women are at work they're perceived as employees and their career identity is the priority, rather than their identity as a woman and as a mother.

But no one who makes this argument can articulate what, beyond her identity as a woman, qualifies Clinton as a passable candidate for socialist feminists.

Feeling isolated and alone, I questioned my self - worth and identity as a woman.

Anyway, one thing I am drawn to is anything that makes me feel like I can embrace my identity as a woman.

The resulting series of portraits — of an idealized, enigmatic female figure, dubbed «Lili» by a friend of the couple — jumpstarts Gerda's career and leads her husband to embrace a new identity as a woman.

Sarah: I was feeling so much sadness, anger, and fear after the election, and a lot of that has to do with my identity as a woman.

Schwabacher also explored her identity as a woman, specifically her roles as wife and mother, in a series of paintings related to womanhood and maternity.

And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman.»

She also shows at last their relevance — to a viewer's experience and to her identity as a woman.

The artist, known only as Aldwyth, has long abandoned her first name not in the hopes of being seen in the fashionable lineage of Madonna and Cher, but to conceal her identity as a woman and to neutralize her position as an artist in a male dominated world.

The exhibition will reveal how each of these women sought recognition as artists in their own right, and how their identity as women shaped the circumstances under which they worked, the forms their art took, and the way their work was interpreted — and often discounted.

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.

Transgender can refer to any range of diverse gender identities or expressions — such as transgender, trans man, trans woman, intersex, non-binary, genderless, two - spirited, and many others — and is better expressed under the umbrella term trans.

Cindy T. White, 41, of Slidell, Louisiana, took the phrase «fake it «till you make it» to new levels in 2015 when she assumed the identity of another woman in order to land a job as a human resources manager, PayScale reports.»

One example of these programs is employee resource groups, where specific identity groups, such as LGBT employees or women, provided a network between Uber and potential hires from these groups.

For security purposes, women who wear the veil should be ready to remove their face covering in places where security and identity checks are necessary, such as airports.

Men have protected their money - based identity by mouthing their self - serving, ideology of mother and home while using women as cheap labor.

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.

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

We must ensure that our Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine, and uphold Catholic values — including the values that might clash with current trends in British society: marriage as the lifelong union of a man and a woman, the need for human life to be cherished from conception to natural death, the truth about our sexual identity as male or female.

The author of 20 books, her passion is to encourage and empower women to walk in confidence as they grasp their true identity as children of God and co-heirs with Christ.

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

Moreover, in the Church the threatening schisms are often related to identity politics: race, colonial history and cultural issues such as gay marriage and the role of women.

This strikes me as an important and refreshing message to send to girls, who are bombarded with stories and images that reinforce the notion that a woman's identity is defined by her appearance and her ability to snag a man.

As men and women have sought to break free of those molds and to establish new identities and images for themselves, they have often complained of the lack of alternatives.

The wearing of cosmetics was so integral to the identity of aristocratic women in France that their morning routine of painting the face and dressing the hair became an informal ceremony with an audience, known as the public toilette.

The differentiation of homosexual orientation from gender identity (for females as well as males) has been increasingly recognized, and a highly competent summing up is available in Man and Woman: Boy and Girl, by John Money and Anke A. Ehrhardt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).

there has been a tendency to speak about our communal existence as if to be a man or woman amounted only to being an ant in an anthill, with little if any significant personal identity.

She attended faithfully and began to discover her identity as a person and a woman instead of a helpless child.

Now at the very end He tells her to go sin no more, but that is just the woman living out her identity as being loved and cherished by Abba.

Neville since Jesus lives in you you may be the only Jesus people in the street get to know.Its his influence in us that has impact not a theoretic ideal of who Jesus is.Our identity is in Christ therefore we are like him or as paul said we are living epistles like a living bible that people can see who Jesus is.Just be yourself and reach out to others because you want them to know who Christ is like the woman at the well if they only knew him they would drink of the living waters you have tasted and so you know its in that experience that we can share or testify what he has done for us.brentnz

Women who ground their identity in their roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers will have little solid ground on which to stand when those roles, for whatever reason, change.

And when women are told that their identity lies solely in their roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers, it's easy to see why so many young women are leaving the Church.

It is through the re-reading and reappropriation of texts from the early period of the formation and quest for identity of the church that one can reclaim, question, and integrate the experiences of women, recognising that - then as now - the «universalizing effect of the Christian master narrative... concealed the subaltern status of many of its characters.»

She calls us back to our truest identities as men and women: «The Hebrew connotation is that the creation of God's image bearers — a blessed male / female alliance with God at the center — is «emphatically,» or «exceedingly,» or «forcefully» good — the grand equivalent of a divine fist bump!»

Virginia Burrus, in her article «The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome,» Harvard Theological Review, 84:3 (1991) 229 - 248, points out how her analysis has indicated that the sources examined «speak loudly and clearly of the preoccupations of the men who articulated their orthodox identity through the use of woman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.&rWoman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome,» Harvard Theological Review, 84:3 (1991) 229 - 248, points out how her analysis has indicated that the sources examined «speak loudly and clearly of the preoccupations of the men who articulated their orthodox identity through the use of woman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.&rwoman as a symbol of the threatening forces of sexuality, social chaos, and false belief.»

Where did they get the idea that our sexual identity («gender» was the term they preferred) as men or women was in the category of things that could be changed?

Root feminine identity in the curse rather than the redemptive work of Christ and then make the argument that because the ancient Near Eastern woman of Proverbs 31 is not described as consulting with the elders, then all women everywhere for all of time are restricted to the realm of the home and therefore responsible for the laundry.

It's important that both men and women act as teachers and that individually they become aware of their own attitudes about sex roles and identities.

In the more liberal churches, women's participation is «as much a rejection of traditional religion as an affirmation of feminist identity.»

Unlike my preference for black coffee vs. lattes, my sexual identity (and sexual relationship with my wife) is a very significant aspect of who I am as a person... Do you disagree with the assertion that sexuality is integral to the identity, and what are your thoughts on why God created you as a gay woman while forbidding you to ever live that out in a relationship with another woman?

We all know that food is fun, and here, it serves as a vehicle to provide context to these women's complicated identities.

The former Arrested Development star turned in an exceptional performance as a retired college professor who comes out to his family as a transgender woman after years of hiding his identity.

But what does it really mean to ask for a «new ethic of responsible parenthood» for the many young, poor women who see having children as «an absolutely essential part of a young woman's life, the chief source of identity and meaning» as well as a mature, responsible choice, as Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas discovered in their ground - breaking book Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marrwomen who see having children as «an absolutely essential part of a young woman's life, the chief source of identity and meaning» as well as a mature, responsible choice, as Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas discovered in their ground - breaking book Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before MarrWomen Put Motherhood Before Marriage.