Moving onto a compound is next for these people, geez! JC... excellent post!
On Jan 13, 8:04�am, "florida mike !" <[email protected]> wrote: > Women's Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism > Is > Bornhttp://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 the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
