Sentences with phrase «regarded as a feminist»

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.

I am an evangelical Christian who lived in the Middle East and would regard myself as a feminist - especially for the sake of the oppressed women over there.

It could be regarded as a feminist parable — that's if we refuse to condemn the psychopathic heroine's vengeful reaction to being treated as property.

Not exact matches

The feminists who adopt these responses regard Christianity as so hopelessly corrupt that it should be rejected by any woman who hopes to achieve her own integrity.

Much work needs to be done to incorporate women's experience into Christian tradition and its theology, but Christian feminists regard the core of Christianity and at least some elements of its tradition as being life - giving for women.

But the Christian feminist is by definition a reformist, regarded with suspicion by males and, alas, females who cling to an outmoded patriarchy, and at the same time labeled as a «moron» by such separatists as Mary Daly.

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.

To regard this as an unfair burden is the modern feminist tendency.

One of the movement's founding documents, The Danvers Statement, states as its chief concern «the increasing promotion given to feminist egalitarianism» and «the widespread ambivalence regarding the values of motherhood, vocational homemaking, and the many ministries historically performed by women.»

The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).

Being a feminist, to me, means having all the same choices as men, with regard to career choices, and equality in the workplace.

Meyers cheats a bit in making Ben already evolved as a self - described feminist in his thinking regarding women in power in the workplace and as breadwinners at home.

As more information is revealed about Faith Frank later in the novel, certain issues come to light regarding her role as a feminist and whether the title can still be applicable to her, even when she does not necessarily serve a group of women's immediate best interestAs more information is revealed about Faith Frank later in the novel, certain issues come to light regarding her role as a feminist and whether the title can still be applicable to her, even when she does not necessarily serve a group of women's immediate best interestas a feminist and whether the title can still be applicable to her, even when she does not necessarily serve a group of women's immediate best interests.

It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer.

«Rather than try to get rid of all the things that have constituted being a woman for so long, as some feminists in some ways try to do, I think we should embrace those aspects — regarding sexuality and our bodies,» says Alexandra.

It ranges from the NMWA's women only collection and exhibition - programme to an entire wing of the Brooklyn Museum being dedicated to feminist art; there's also The Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision to show work by lesser - known artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female artist.

She worked for decades as a relative unknown — at one point using the roof of her townhouse as a studio — but championed by feminist artists in the Seventies, and by curator Robert Storr, she became well known and highly regarded in late middle age, making her the unofficial patron saint of unheralded midcareer artists everywhere.

You are regarded as a progenitor of feminist and issue - oriented art.

Rejected at the time not only by prudish institutions and the male - dominated art world, but also by the mainstream feminist movement — which regarded pornography as a vulgar extension of patriarchy — Tompkins» work has been marginalized for more than 30 years.

She is regarded as one of the leading figures in promoting and articulating a feminist approach to art - making.

Artist Statement «A journalist, author and political activist, Gloria Steinem is internationally regarded as a leader and a spokeswoman for the feminist movement.»

After first establishing herself in New York as a highly regarded abstract painter in the midst of the heavily male New York School, Schapiro continued shaping feminist art, inviting Judy Chicago and the women artists of her Fresno Feminist Art Program to CalArts, and serving as a key player in bringing about the Feminist Art Program's legendary installation art project and performance space, Womanhouse, in 1972.

Hannah Wilke is regarded as one of the most prominent American feminist artists working in a variety of media, including sculpture, video, photography, and performance.

Carr is participating both in the current conversation regarding theories of contemporary craft as well as Post-Minimal feminist concerns.

Regarded as the iconic piece of feminist video art, this 6 - minute feminist parody of a televised cooking show seeks to change preconceived notions about the woman's role within the home, and how this is represented in the mass media.