The reintroduction
of a liberated woman into a patriarchal, closed - off religious community rekindles certain emotions and desires within Esti, which can not be contained by her husband or the Sheitel (wig) she must wear as a married Orthodox Jewish woman.
We first see her naked on her back as a man, Vincent (Xavier Beauvois), humps away on top of her — and right away, one may wonder if this is a portrait
of a liberated woman or a glimpse from the male gaze.
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Samuel Noah Kramer, another great Sumerologist, calls her the epitome
of liberated woman and, half in love with her himself, hopes that at life's end his ashes may be buried in the ruins of Uruk, Inanna's city.
Female imagery has sometimes functioned to validate a markedly positive attitude toward women (for example, the young Psyche, the image
of a liberated woman, or Artemis, the free, assertive huntress).
There's all this rhetoric in Australia about prostitution, about how it's a woman's right, full
of liberated women who just can't wait to sell their bodies.
Three
of the liberated women found shelter with relatives, but the other nine were delivered to Wittenberg, where Luther worked to find housing, and even better marriages, for them.
Not exact matches
What appears to be the ultimate cultural stand - off — four sexually
liberated New Yorkers facing
women with all but their eyes covered — turns into a moment
of cultural harmony as the Muslims disrobe, revealing their designer duds.
The details
of law and the vital debates over the personhood
of the fetus mattered far less than the success
of a continuing ideological war to
liberate women from male domination, orthodox religion, and oppressive notions
of traditional sexual morality.
Christian
women of a reformist orientation — who regard themselves as feminists and yet claim the Christian tradition as bearer
of a
liberating truth, capable
of reform in a more humanizing direction — find themselves addressing sisters who share some fundamental positions but who reject some that are to the reformers at least
of equal importance.
The Christian feminist knows the power
of Christianity, is conscious
of how this religion has worked to the detriment
of women, but also knows
of the good it has done, and
of the good it could do if its
liberating message were heard.
A Year
of Biblical Womanhood: How a
Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjec
Woman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration
of what makes a
woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjec
woman «biblical» and the danger
of reducing the Bible to an adjective.
Which story
of a
woman in Scripture do you find most
liberating and why?
The essence
of Jesus is the daring moral imperative, the universal goodness
of human members, the spiritually catalyzed proletarianism which spread to the West, civilizing humanity and
liberating the slave, man and
woman.
And as a
woman, referring to God as She or as Mother serves as an important,
liberating reminder that I am indeed created in the image
of God, not as some lesser being who exists in perpetual subordination to men, but as an expression
of God's very self.
Can a male minister counsel in a
liberating fashion with the
women members
of his congregation, who invariably make up the bulk
of his counseling load?
The Christian theologians took their cue from other letters
of Paul's in which he is clearly using his culture's customs to resolve friction that had arisen when
women began responding to the
liberating gospel
of Jesus Christ.
But by understanding the moral norms in Israel and early Christianity as natural products
of their times, we are able to look beyond them for indications
of a higher,
liberating view
of women.
Jesus
liberated women but once his followers got a generation or 2 removed I think some
of them lost sight
of the freedom he brought us as they tried codify that freedom into another religion.
(One
of the
liberating findings, as long as it does not become standard setting,
of the Masters and Johnson research is that many
women are capable
of multiple orgasms — a series
of climaxes during the same experience
of intercourse.)
Also, let us not forget Justice O'Connor argument from Casey about
liberating women from their baby making bodies so they can help boost the GDP: «The ability
of women to participate equally in the economic and social life
of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.»
Both
women and men need, and are asking for, the kind
of counseling and consciousness raising which will help them challenge old stereotypes and
liberate more fully their spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical potential.
The other side argues that a female in today's «
liberated» society is still a «
woman» and as such should fit into God's ordained and orderly creation, fulfilling her role
of submission and dependence in church and family without impatience on the one hand or servitude on the other.
When one considers the patriarchal climate
of the era in which his thinking developed, Assagioli was remarkably
liberated in his attitudes toward
women.
An obvious example
of such filtering is Billy Graham's discussion «Jesus and the
Liberated Woman.»
I can not wait for her next book A Year
of Biblical Womanhood: How a
Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband «Master» to release this fall.
They are surprised because, as a self - described «
liberated woman» who champions
women in church leadership and an egalitarian interpretation
of Scripture, I don't fit the perceived mold for the submissive wife.
This is a
liberated woman who throws caution to the wind in pursuit
of her lover and who relishes the attention that he bestows on her.
In
liberating our marriages we give our children a precious gift, the model
of a mutually - fulfilling man -
woman relationship, which is one
of the best preparations for their future.
Well, we've finally settled on a cover for my new book, A Year
of Biblical Womanhood: How a
Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master:
«Hoy canto al Dios del Pueblo en mi guitarra, un canto de mujer que se libera» («Today I sing to the God
of my people with my guitar, I sing a song
of a
woman who
liberates herself»), sings Rosa Marta Zárate.
The black church gave black
women the «possibility
of experiencing a
liberating Jesus even as they were given a racist and sexist one.»
And so when the merman mingles his sighs with the soughing
of the reeds she turns her ear thither, and then stands still and falls to dreaming, more charming than any
woman and yet beautiful as a
liberating angel which inspires the merman with confidence.
Unless a man is unusually
liberated from male prejudice and empathetic regarding the experience
of being a
woman in our culture, he had better not attempt to lead an all -
women liberation group.
The freedom to be, for
women, and the freedom to feel, for men, are two sides
of a
liberated relationship.
They have exposed the need for
liberated counselors,
liberated from male biases and perception
of the different needs
of women.
Most significant discussion
of the Martha - Mary story found within Luke's central section (10:38 - 42) has been confined in recent years to studies which articulate Luke's view
of the social character
of the Gospel: by placing Mary «at the Lord's feet» (10:39), Luke is affirming
liberated social identity for
women disciples (cf. 8: l - 3).44
In another scene, the novel scolds men for resisting this
liberated view
of sex, as Langdon reminisces about a lecture he'd recently given to undergraduates: «The next time you find yourself with a
woman, look in your heart and see if you can approach sex as a mystical, spiritual act.
McInnes is talking about a conservative vision
of what
women should do with themselves and their lives as
liberating.
If we are not complete without families and the joy
of that and doing a good job at it is in making good people
of the children we create, then the liberation
of the creative, erotic, familial impulse can mean
liberating women to stay at home with their children.
Alexandra Symonds, «The
Liberated Woman, Healthy and Neurotic,» American Journal
of Psychoanalysis 34 (1974): 177 - 83.
What Dutton sought, writes Stricherz, was «a Social Change coalition, which would be composed
of college - educated suburbanites, blacks, and
liberated women, in addition to young people.»
«Since the Bible depicts other peoples» cultures, and we know from African culture that not everything in culture is
liberating, we come to the Bible with the same cautious approach we have to culture... Any interpretation
of the Bible is unacceptable if it does harm to
women, the vulnerable and the voiceless.»
Becoming like the Proverbs 31
Woman is not about WHAT you do, but HOW you do it... I was so buoyed up by this idea and have kind
of been floating on the
liberating feeling
of it and the power
of the blessing
of «Eshet Chayil»!
Women like Tubman and Granson used subtle and silent strategies to
liberate themselves and large numbers
of black people.
She wrote to her sister Everina in 1787 that she was trying to become «the first
of a new genus»
of women — what some today might call «
liberated».
The New York Times: The Freedom
of the Hijab Ayesha Nusrat, a 23 year - old Muslim
woman in New Delhi writes about her decision to start wearing the hijab, and how that decision has been «the most
liberating experience ever.»
Leanne's popular blog, Healthful Pursuit, is a unique collection
of motivational guidance and easy - to - make recipes for
women who want to create a
liberated life on a restricted diet.
If you don't — because you're a
liberated woman who can have sex whenever you damn well please — don't be too surprised if a decent percentage
of those men never call again.