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Christian Feminism: From Restriction to Reconstruction
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10307 |
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Book World
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12 / 1986 |
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Lucy Mazareski
Lucy Mazareski reviews frequently for Catholic publications. |
ALL WE'RE MEANT TO BE
Biblical Feminism for Today
Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy A. Hardesty
Nashville: Abingdon Press
272 pp. $12.95
WOMEN AND RELIGION IN AMERICA, VOLUME 3: 1900-1968
Rosemary Radford Ruether & Rosemary Skinner Keller,
Gen. Editors
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers
409 pp. $26.95
In the mid-sixties, the appearance of Betty Friedan's best-selling Feminine Mystique opened the floodgates for a tide of books, articles, studies, and seminars on the topic of women. The continuing widespread interest generated and fed by such works reflects an urgent need in modern times for deep reflection on, and a new attitude toward, the role, place, and person of woman in contemporary society. Most of the voluminous work on the subject has been done by women themselves. Some of it has been strident and confrontational, and as such has repelled rather than attracted sympathy, or provided an excuse for ridicule or evasion of genuine dialogue. This stridency, however, is an understandable expression of a deeply felt sense of frustration and anger arising from a situation in which priorities, distinctions, opportunities, restrictions, and standards of superiority and inferiority have been exclusively drawn on the basis of concepts of masculinity and femininity. The collective judgment of centuries has told woman that her allegedly weak, passive, receptive,
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