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Home: Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Beyond the Veil Worship - Allison HanesWhen the faithful heed the call to Friday prayer at the Noor Cultural Centre, men gather on the left side of the light filled hall facing Mecca, while women align themselves on the right. Read more... Broken Relationships: Why Women Reject God - Charles ColsonIn his new book, titled Faith of the Fatherless, Paul Vitz argues that a person’s rejection of God is linked directly to a defective relationship involving his or her earthly father. Read more... Calling All Hombres - Naomi Schaefer Riley"Defend yourself." That's the lesson Harvey Mansfield drew for Larry Summers the week before Harvard's president was forced to resign. Read more... Catholic and Feminist: Can One Be Both? - Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseCan one be both Catholic and feminist? Many of us these days are asking the question, sometimes with considerable anguish. The real question, however, is why is this a question at all. Why do so many of us see the relations between Catholicism and feminists as problematic? Read more... Christian Feminism: A Fuller View of Woman - ZenitSecularized feminism raises excellent questions but cannot answer them, says an American theologian who points to a Christian feminism as an antidote. Read more... Click, Clack - Sarah E. HinlickyIn her book "What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman", Danielle Crittenden documents how feminism has imposed a rigid new set of feminist prejudices. Read more... Coming Clean: The Real Truth About Men's and Women's Brains - James BowmanIn the school where I once taught, they used to tell the story of the smart-alecky boy in chemistry class who, upon being given meticulous instructions as to the day’s classwork, put his hand up and asked: "Please, sir, why do we need to do this experiment? You already know how it comes out, and we don’t care." Read more... Daze of Our Wives - Beth ImpsonWhen I first encountered Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, at the height of its influence in the 70s, I kept thinking, "Who are these women?" My mother and her friends were not "desperate housewives": secret alcoholics and adulterers, trying to escape the boredom of their non-wage-earning lives. Read more... Edith Stein — Convert, Nun, Martyr - Laura GarciaThe woman's body stamps her soul with particular qualities that are common to all women but different from distinctively masculine traits. Saint Edith Stein saw these differences as complementary and not hierarchical in value, and so they should be recognized and celebrated rather than minimized and deplored. Should women be confined to the domestic sphere to “home and hearth?” Not at all, said Stein. She saw the gains made by the women's movement in this respect to be positive opening up the professions and political life to women and providing equal opportunities in these areas. Read more... Embarrassing the Angels - Peggy NoonanOr, that's no way to treat a lady. Read more... Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 13:15:41
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