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Home: Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Ms. Fix-It - Kay HymowitzWhile Hillary Clinton attempts to storm the Oval Office, some of her less renowned sisters are busy liberating one of the few other remaining male strongholds: the hardware store. Email This Article Of Pillars and Spores: The Genius of Woman - Sister Renee MirkesPillars and spores are images used by Edith Stein (1891-1942) in one of her essays on women. The woman who becomes or is becoming what she is meant to be, Stein explains, is “like a pillar to which many fasten themselves, thereby attaining a firm footing.” Further, women who are on their way to becoming whole persons can, in turn, help others to realize their personal fulfillment. In this way, Stein argues, women are like “healthy, energetic spores supplying healthy energy” to all whom God puts in their path. The metaphors of pillar and spore provide easy to remember associational images of how Stein defines the constitutive nature, vocation, and genius of woman. Email This Article Pope John Paul II's Teaching on Women - Mary Rousseau“John Paul II’s vision of the dignity and vocation of women is one of the most exciting events of our era,” writes Mary Rousseau, who provides an inspiring overview of that vision. Email This Article Pro-Life Feminist: Not a Contradiction in Terms - Insight MagazineI would get angry looking at bumper stickers on people's cars! I would get angry at the way the whole debate was being twisted in the media so that if you were antiabortion you were anti-woman. Email This Article Rescuing Feminism from the Feminists - a book review - Mary Ann GlendonA new, more responsive feminism does seem to be gaining ground. Unlike its predecessor, the emerging feminism of the nineties attends to the real-life needs and aspirations of a wide range of women. It wrestles with harmonizing family life and employment in world where a balance struck either way is risky. It sees women and men as partners rather than antagonists in the quest for better ways to love and work. The new feminism is inclusive rather than polarizing; open-minded rather than dogmatic. It recognizes that the fates of men, women, and children, privileged and poor alike, are inextricably intertwined. Email This Article Sentiment and Sentimentality: Woman’s Choice - Mary ShivanandanWomen’s responsive and receptive nature, as wife and mother, is expressed by empathy, sensitivity and openness to others. This exposes her to the temptation to place affection (sentiment) above reason and objective truth. Only when she acknowledges the fullness of the image of God in herself and places her own integrity and obedience to God’s law above sentiment does she avoid the destructive path of sentimentality. Email This Article Sexual Symbolism - Peter KreeftThe excerpt below from the book Women and the Priesthood (by Peter Kreeft and Alice Von Hildebrand) comprises Kreeft's second of four reasons defending the Catholic church's teaching on the male priesthood. Email This Article Should we have sex on the brain? - Norman DoidgeSome government programs are now offering dollars to universities, in the form of salaries and grants, if they hire women, and only women, for professorial science positions. But Dr. Doreen Kimura, one of the world leaders in the field of sex differences and cognition, points out there is "no evidence" for systemic discrimination against women in science. Recent neurological, hormonal, and psychological studies argue that men and women differ not only in their physical attributes, but cognitively in how they solve intellectual problems leading them to have different occupational preferences and skills. Email This Article Susan B. Anthony: Pro-Life Feminist - Frederica Mathewes-GreenSusan B. Anthony, icon of modern-day feminism, would have been horrified at what is being done in her name. Writing passionately about the evils of abortion she sought to “eradicate this most monstrous crime.” Email This Article The Fight for Muslim Women - Anne ApplebaumA feisty memoir from a controversial champion of female rights. Email This Article Pages Updated On: 21-Jul-2008 - 13:33:46
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