Women's Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism
Is
Born
http://www.truthout.org/011209WA
This October, more than 6,000 women gathered in Chicago for the True
Woman Conference '08: a stadium-style event to promote what its
proponents call biblical womanhood, complementarianism, or - most
bluntly - the patriarchy movement.
Women gathering to support the patriarchy movement? It's
evangelical counterculture at its most contrarian.
The Associated Baptist Press explains the relationship of
biblical
womanhood to feminism, highlighting an ambitious initiative that
arose
from the meeting: a signature-drive seeking 100,000 women to endorse
its "True Woman Manifesto," which, the ABP writes, aims "at sparking
a
counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s."
To outside observers of the patriarchy movement, the starkness of
the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to
mention historically misleading: feminist blogs Feministing and
Pandagon have deftly dismantled some of the speakers' "Leave it to
Beaver" idealizations of the 1950s as a time when women were
universally protected).
For the rest of Kathryn Joyce's exploration of evangelical anti-
feminism, please click here.
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