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Home: Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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. Read more... 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. Read more... Feminism and the Unraveling of the Social Bond - Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseLike countless other women who cherish improvement in the situation of women in the United States and throughout the world, I was initially quick to embrace feminism as the best way to secure our "rights" and our dignity as persons. Like countless others, I was seriously misled. Read more... Feminists for Life Reveal Prominent Pro-Life Women - Joshua MercerCelebrities exert a considerable amount of influence in American life today. Their support or opposition can make a big difference to any social crusade. Now a small, but growing, number of celebrities have begun to step forward to proclaim their opposition to both abortion and the death penalty. Read more... Fictional drivel - Barbara KayThe setting of The Handmaid's Tale is "the recent future." The United States has morphed into the Republic of Gilead, dominated by Christian fundamentalists, who have conscripted fertile women into a program of forced breeding. Read more... Freedom to be a woman - Margaret SomervilleIt is our great good fortune that we live in an era and society in which there are many and diverse ways of “being a woman” — as there are of “being a man.” Read more... From Chatelaine, a condescending rant by yesterday's feminist - Barbara KayA jubilant Montreal Gazette headline announced on Monday: "We've got babies on the brain." Read more... From Woman to Feminism - Joseph M. de TorreWhile Women's Liberation has grown out of a legitimate and ethically justifiable desire for equality with men regarding civil rights, occupations, and political rights, along with these reasonable claims, have come others leading to sexual irresponsibility. Read more... From women, to womyn, to women - Jonathan KayCenturies from now, when the definitive history of the feminist movement is written, a small footnote will have been earned by the University of Waterloo. Read more... Is There a Specifically Feminine Spirituality?: An Exploration of Edith Stein’s Thesis - Kathleen Curran SweeneyDuring her university years, Edith Stein (now St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross) held a strongly pro-feminist view of “femininity”, and as a professional woman she appreciated the gains made for women who wished to enter fields dominated by men. Read more... Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 13:15:41
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