What went wrong? Feminism and freedom from the prison of gender roles.

From: Cross Currents | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Gross, Rita M. | Copyright information

In his novel The Town Beyond the Wall, Elie Wiesel tells the story of a time when God and humans changed places and the human, now God, refused to revert to the original order. But after infinite amounts of time, "The past for one, and the present for the other, were too heavy to be borne." He continues, "As the liberation of the one was bound to the liberation of the other, they renewed the dialogue whose echoes come to us in the night, charged with hatred, with remorse, and most ...

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