At the 2009 Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastor's Conference, Carolyn McCulley spoke to the Pastor's Wives in a seminar called "The Pastor’s Wife and Culture: What Feminism Has Done to Femininity." I just listened to it the other day and thought that it was a worthy "Introduction to Feminism." Download it and listen to it.
For a further look at feminism, McCulley wrote Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World.
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Mike - I heard it was a great talk. She is speaking this wknd at NEXT and I'll be liveblogging her session for the the Gender Blog.
This might be a good place to note that McCulleyn has misrepresented early feminists. On Women Boldly Praying, Carolyn McCulley writes,
"The earliest feminists largely were also opposed to marriage. As one leading 19th-century feminist wrote: “It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman, so long as she is degraded in marriage. … I feel that this whole question of woman’s rights turns on the point of the marriage relation.” Though she was a mother of seven who was married for nearly 50 years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was vocal in her low opinion of marriage—a perspective that shaped feminist thinking through the next 150 years."
It is not in my awareness that early feminists largely opposed marriage. Let's look at what Elizabeth Cady Stanton said,
"It is vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage. I say, it is a sin, an outrage on our holiest feelings to pretend that anything but deep, fervent love and sympathy constitutes marriage. The right idea of marriage is at the foundation of all reform."
It is not being married which degrades a woman. Cady Stanton was not against marriage. She was against women being degraded in marriage. Can anyone help me out here? Which early feminists were against marriage.
And is Carolyn McCulley for women being degraded in marriage?
I want to know what gives certain people the right to publish stuff like this. Can't the non-truth be cleaned up, for goodness sake. Aren't there some complementarians somewhere that don't want to misrepresent history?
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