I have a compound about a mile from my house. Every time a child from the family marries, they are given a plot of land to build a house on. Every child has to be willing to subdivide his plot for another child, and now this family has bought a second tract of land to continue the practice. It is not uncommon for the children to marry their cousins, and I swear, every one of them looks alike. Where I live in Idaho, the population is a conservative estimate of 62% LDS, with more than a few Catholics, Pentocostals, and Mennonites thrown in for good measure. Large families with more than 5 children are not uncommon, and the area is extremely patriarchal.
On Jan 13, 8:11 am, wncs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
