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7% Matter: Listening to Women in Evangelical Academia
By: Emily Louise Zimbrick-Rogers | November 12, 2014
Recently I was told the story of a 55-year-old woman currently attending an evangelical seminary. This story, and others like it, drive my upcoming research at the Evangelical Theological Society conference.
What Does "Different" Mean? Only that "The Means Are Different"
By: Justin Miller | October 20, 2014
What does it mean exactly to say that men and women are different, and is there a framework that guides the way we draw implications from the difference between male and female?
Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
By: Chanequa Walker-Barnes | June 19, 2014
Black women are strong. At least that's what everyone says and how they are constantly depicted. But what, exactly, does this strength entail? And what price do Black women pay for it? In this book, the author, a psychologist and pastoral theologian, examines the burdensome yoke that the ideology of the Strong Black Woman places [...]
Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor in the First Two Centuries C.E.
By: Katherine Bain | May 1, 2014
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed "women's roles" in the Roman world—discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view—Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E.
Power and the Brain
By: Susan Harris Howell | March 2, 2014
An imbalance of power has actually been linked to brain functioning. According to Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, people with power share similarities with those who have damaged frontal lobes, a part of the brain which facilitates empathy and socially-appropriate behavior.
Right Answers, Wrong Questions
By: Susan Harris Howell | February 26, 2014
One reason that questions about men and women continue to confound us, I’m convinced, is that we’re asking the wrong questions, which tend to lead us to inadequate answers. So in an effort to un-confound things, I offer the following tweaked questions (TQ) so we can move toward answers that are more effective [...]
Advantages and Disadvantages
By: Susan Harris Howell | February 16, 2014
One of my first objectives in teaching a Gender Studies course is to help my students realize that neither gender has all the advantages while the other is completely without perks. While most people have at least a vague awareness that males have it easier in many ways, women and men alike sometimes don’t [...]
Gendered Language Development: Differences and Consequences
By: Susan Harris Howell | August 1, 2013
This session explores differences in the way we communicate with male and female children and how these differences influence the way males and females learn to communicate with the opposite sex.
Partnering Religious Leaders in Promoting Equal Worth, Dignity, and Entitlement for Women and Men, Boys and Girls
By: Fatuma Hashi | July 26, 2013
Children around the world are at risk from various forms of life-threatening situations. They face many adversities in diverse contexts including wars, famine and disease. However, there is one threat to child well-being that remains constant in all global contexts: the presence of gender-based violence.
Social Science Studies Cannot Define Gender Differences
By: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen | April 30, 2013
As unwitting children of the Enlightenment, we seem to have a Tower of Babel–like craving for absolute certainty. And so both sides in the debate recruit biologists and social scientists as latter-day natural theologians who are supposed to help close the theological gaps by telling us, from a “scientific” perspective, what gender complementarity “really [...]