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Home: Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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. Email This Article 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? Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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." Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article Embarrassing the Angels - Peggy NoonanOr, that's no way to treat a lady. Email This Article Feminism and Marriage: a Reflection on Ephesians 5: 21-33 - Mary ShivanandanSince this passage with the admonition of St. Paul for wives to submit themselves to their husbands as to the Lord, creates great difficulties for modern-day feminists, I have selected it as the springboard for this article on feminism and marriage. The passage has been called a summa of Church teaching on marriage and has been interpreted in several ways through the centuries. Today I want to compare John Chrysostom's interpretation with that of John Paul II with some reference to medieval and various contemporary interpretations. Finally I shall show the application of the passage in the lives of some couples today. Email This Article Feminism and the Family an Indissoluble Marriage - Mary Ann GlendonHarvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon led the Vatican delegation to the UN Beijing Conference on Women in 1995. She soon discovered that the working document in Beijing contained defects which corresponded closely to the defects of 1970s' feminism. Email This Article Pages Updated On: 22-Apr-2008 - 09:45:11
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