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Home: Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Feminism: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship - Christina Hoff Sommers"Harder to kill than a vampire." That is what the sociologist Joel Best calls a bad statistic. But, as I have discovered over the years, among false statistics the hardest of all to slay are those promoted by feminist professors. Read more... 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. Read more... Practical Romance - Brad MinerG.K. Chesterton speaks of the human need for “practical romance” -- a mixture of something strange with something secure. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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.” Read more... The Changing Faces of Feminism - David ReardonMany people assume that feminism and the movement to legalize abortion are virtually synonymous. Read more... Pages Updated On: 08-Mar-2011 - 19:01:24
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