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feminism The movement to establish the equality of the sexes. Feminist theology is related to modern feminism in general. It derives from women's experience of suffering and oppression. It argues that traditional Christianity, rooted in the Bible, is too masculine and that the
faith should be reconstructed in order to do justice to the proper needs and expectations of women who, equally with men, have been made in the image of God (Gen. 1: 27). Such a reconstruction would not, however, be primarily in the interests of female liberation but for the sake of the truth of Christianity: it represents a repudiation of patterns of the sexual superiority of men and the subordination of women which have existed at the deepest levels of thought and feeling and are reflected in much of the OT and NT. Readers of the Bible who are alienated by its patriarchal attitudes are inevitably obliged also to reassess traditional views of the authority of the Bible. For example, its bias towards masculine rationalism would be balanced by the rediscovery of female characteristics in God.
Christian feminists point for support to the teaching and attitude of Jesus, who overcame the limitations of his local environment by his welcome to
Gentiles as well as Jews, and to women as well as men. Typical of his attitude is the dialogue with the
Syro-Phoenician woman (Mark 7: 24–30) and the healing of the woman with menorrhagia (Mark 5: 24–34), and he accepted the love of the woman who anointed him (Luke 7: 38). Women were the first of the disciples to be told of his
resurrection (Mark 16: 6). In the gospel of John the mother of Jesus, the two sisters
Mary and
Martha, and
Mary Magdalen Magdalene are prominent. In the Church, leadership is exercised by such women as
Priscilla (Rom. 16: 3),
Chloe (1 Cor. 1: 11), and
Phoebe (Rom. 16: 1), and
Junia was ‘prominent among the apostles’ (Rom. 16: 7). The gospel of Luke is often regarded as particularly sympathetic to women—but they do seem to be presented in roles of service and subordination to men (Luke 8: 2–3).
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Feminism and Public Health Nursing: Partners for Health
Magazine article from: Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Blackburn, 1996) defines feminism as "the approach to social...and Wheeler (1985) define feminism as "a world view that values...1987) noted in defining feminism that women's experiences...that one can speak only of "feminisms." Feminisms, however diverse...
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Feminism made it okay ...(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: off our backs; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...physically but instead of taking it and just bowing my head, feminism made it okay for me to keep going. Feminism made it okay for me to get good grades and be proud of it. Feminism made it okay for me not to take that Home Economics course but...
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Feminism is for Everybody.
Magazine article from: Women in Action; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...unfortunately deprived of a walking and talking feminism, bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody could not have come at a better...Many of today's feminists come face to face with feminism only in the classrooms. While the movement has...
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Transnational feminisms and the World Social Forum: encounters and transformations in anti-globalization spaces.
Magazine article from: Journal of International Women's Studies; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...expressions of transnational feminism at the WSF with implications...inter-relationality of feminisms, anti-globalization...debates over the future of feminism taking place in transnational...impacts of the WSF on feminisms in specific places and...attention in any study of feminism and the ...
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(Other) feminisms--(other) values.
Magazine article from: Hecate; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discussions about feminisms within women's movements...approach to look at feminisms from a cultural and...to definitions of feminism, whether they self...based resistance to feminisms HKU Perspective: Feminism as a western import...
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Multiracial feminism: recasting the chronology of Second Wave feminism.
Magazine article from: Feminist Studies; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the emergence and contributions of Second Wave feminism. (1) Although initially eager to read and teach...history that Chela Sandoval refers to as "hegemonic feminism." (2) This feminism is white led, marginalizes the activism and world...
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Power, feminisms, and coalitional agency: inviting and enacting difficult dialogues.
Magazine article from: Women's Studies in Communication; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...discussions over feminism in communication...conversations about what our feminisms are, how we define...impacts that power feminism has on feminisms and feminists in...conversations about feminisms, that power feminism does not feel like...
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Feminism as radical humanism.
Magazine article from: Canadian Woman Studies; 6/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...books like Judith Grant's Fundamental Feminism, Julia Kristeva's invocation of Montesquieu...Johnson adds to this growing movement with Feminism as Radical Humanism. While tracing the...and systematically constructed text, Feminism as Radical Humanism provides the groundwork...
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Feminism.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S)(Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Christina Fisanick, editor, FEMINISM: OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS. Detroit...95, ISBN 978-0737737707. Is feminism still relevant, or are we at the...in this case the latest version on feminism (1)--aims to teach students...
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Whither feminism? Feminism's identity crisis.
Magazine article from: Current; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...unthinkable for them ten years earlier. Feminism was altering their lives as much...counterparts. Today, three decades of feminism and one Year of the Woman later, a majority of American women agree that feminism has altered their lives for the better...
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Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Feminism: Africa and African Diaspora Feminism is broadly defined as the struggle for the liberation of women...subordination of women by men. An individual person espousing feminism is referred to as a feminist, while collective mobilizations...
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Feminism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Feminism. Throughout recorded history, some women...as feminists or professed a belief in feminism. The historian Gerda Lerner has addressed...defining feminist consciousness rather than feminism. From “Feminist Consciousness...
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Feminism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...well as feminist theorizing. Feminism (both as ideology and struggle...interrogations of Western feminism by non-Western women as...only in its plural form, feminisms , to reflect its many transnational...religion. Anglo-American Feminism Developments in Anglo-American...
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Islamic Feminism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Islamic Feminism The term Islamic feminism was first used in the 1990s. It is not certain who coined the...projection of a newly politicized Islam. Defining "Islamic Feminism" To understand Islamic feminism, both words have to be examined...
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feminism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
feminism Feminism and woman's nature The most far-reaching social development of modern...of women against sexual servitude ( Margaret Sanger , 1920). While feminism takes many forms and cannot be characterized in any seamless way, it...
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