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Helping Christians Set Trends for Oppressed Women in India
By: Ellen Alexander, Beulah Wood | September 6, 2004
Helping Christians Set Trends for Oppressed Women in India
Equality in the Biblical Marriage Vows: The Origins of Love, Honour, and Cherish
By: David Instone-Brewer | September 6, 2004
Equality in the Biblical Marriage Vows: The Origins of Love, Honour, and Cherish
Sexual Exploitation and Violence toward Women: Global and Local Concerns
By: Ellen Armstrong | September 6, 2004
Sexual Exploitation and Violence toward Women: Global and Local Concerns
Book Review: Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
By: Carrie A. Miles | January 31, 2004
Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life, by Oregon State University sociology professor Sally K. Gallagher, is a detailed study of evangelical attitudes toward gender and the family.
Book Review: What Science Says About Superiority: Shattering the Myth of Race
By: Kriss Erickson | March 5, 2003
Shattering the Myth of Race by Dave Unander is a thoughtful discussion of the conflict of race and ethnicity against the backdrop of the history of Western Europe and the United States.
The Subjection of Women: A feminist appraisal of John Stuart Mill’s last work
By: Kamilla Ludwig | October 31, 2002
In reviewing Mill’s book The Subjection of Women, I wish to make three points and use them to build a partial case in support of feminism, using Mill’s social theory.
Book Review: Cultural of Analysis: Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals
By: Joseph B. Modica | July 31, 2002
Slaves, Women and Homosexuals is a hermeneutical tour de force. Webb severs ties with traditional hermeneutical textbooks by offering intra-scriptural and extrascriptural criteria and a case study approach (akin to W. M. Swartley's Slavery, Sabbath, War & Women) rather than a step-by-step methodology.
The Place of Women in First-century Synagogues: They were much more active in religious life than they are today
By: Shmuel Safrai | January 31, 2002
In the time of Jesus there was no separation of the sexes in the synagogue and women could be counted as part of the ten individuals needed for a religious quorum. This allowed women to be much more active in the religious life of the community than they are today.
Book Review: How Religious Women View Feminism: God Gave Us the Right
By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | June 30, 2001
In this carefully done ethnographic study, religion professor Christel Manning offers an intriguing assessment of the lives and beliefs of women in conservative religious traditions today. Manning surveys and assesses responses to feminist social values and the secular feminist movement by women in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, a charismatic evangelical church, and a Catholic parish [...]
When the Shoe Was on the Other Foot
By: Dan Gentry Kent | June 6, 2001
As a male, I recently had an experience that involved gender stereotyping, from which I learned a lot. For one thing, I learned a bit about how my sisters have so often felt. There was a meeting in a major Southern city to plan for a large women’s conference. There were 62 women in [...]