Facilitating a Responsible Decision About Parenthood

1982 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
Judith Ann Erlen
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Premarital Counseling ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Catholic Women

Describes the role of the pastor in helping couples make responsible decisions about parenthood through exploring their values and options in premarital counseling. Issues include impact on careers, health, responsibilities of parenthood, women's liberation, finances, time to pursue educational or personal goals, and the time needed to establish the marital relationship. Compares birth control attitudes of Protestant and Catholic women with a brief review of statistics over the last decade.

“It’s with Tokens”

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-432
Author(s):  
Blake Slonecker
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Underground Press ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Institutional Cultures

This article examines the evolving relationship between the women’s liberation movement and the underground press in Seattle between 1967 and 1970, arguing that the mixed-sex alternative media belatedly embraced feminist ideals but failed to establish robust feminist institutional cultures. Prior to 1969, the hierarchical work environment and masculine aesthetic of the Helix (1967–1970) proved inhospitable to feminist critiques. Beginning in 1969, the emergence of democratic work collectives and increasing coverage of feminism at the Helix and its successor, the Sabot (1970), provided the print space for radical women to organize and confront Movement men about toxic masculinity. By analyzing the relationship between women’s liberation and the underground press in Seattle, this article illuminates the ambivalent role of the underground press in applying feminist ideals to the cultural politics of the Movement in Seattle and nationwide.

Failing the Masses in Syria

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Asaad Alsaleh
Keyword(s):  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Syrian Revolution ◽  
The Masses

In this chapter, Asaad Alsaleh discusses the problematic and double-sided role of the public intellectual Buthaina Shabaan in the Syrian revolution. Shabaan was a writer, professor, and advocate of the Syrian regime who spurred the populace to embrace the possibility of democratic reform. However, this feminist intellectual accepted—even embraced—the political control employed by the Assad authoritarian one-party regime, which used her as a representative of its supposed progressive and women’s liberation agendas.

scholarly journals Na tronie i obok tronu. O kobietach w życiu publicznym Polski przedrozbiorowej

2018 ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
Marceli KOSMAN
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Monographic Study ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
The Way

The royal throne was a permanent element of feudal political culture, and the institution of the monarchy, albeit decidedly less significant, has survived until today, playing a primarily symbolic role in the democratic systems in Europe. The subject of the paper looks at the role of Polish rulers’ wives, as the majority of monarchs started a family, and their offspring later took the throne. This was the case of both great dynasties – the Piasts, from the mid-10th century, i.e. from the baptism of Mieszko I, and the Jagiellons (until 1572). After these dynasties ended, the period of elective kings, who were crowned with their wives, started. Over the years, at the very least, the informal role of the queens was growing. This process paved the way to women’s liberation, and, as of the end of the 18th century, it also encompassed the families of magnates and affluent gentry. A meaningful statement can be found in the poetry written by Bishop Ignacy Krasicki in the latter half of the same century, when he addressed men saying: “we rule the world, and women rule us”. The paper is only a sketch and promises a more in-depth monographic study.

The Movement Makes the News

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. Dow
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Birth Control Pill ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter begins the story of 1970's “grand press blitz,” when a barrage of print stories on the movement set the stage for network news' first reports on women's liberation. It couples a discussion of all three networks' first, brief, hard news reports on feminist protest in January—the disruption of the Senate birth control pill hearings by a women's liberation group—with an extensive analysis of two series of lengthy soft feature stories on women's liberation broadcast by CBS and NBC in March and April. On one level, both network series created a sort of moderate middle ground of acceptable feminism anchored by their legitimation of liberal feminist issues related to workplace discrimination, but they diverged sharply in other ways that indicated key differences in their purposes and their imagined audiences. The CBS and NBC series provide a sort of baseline for national television representations of the movement in 1970; between them, they display the wide range of rhetorical strategies contained in early network reports. The CBS stories offered a generally dismissive and visually sensationalized narrative about the movement, particularly its radical contingent, displaying the gender anxiety assumed to afflict its male target audience. In contrast, the NBC series presented a generally sympathetic narrative about the movement's issues that unified radical and liberal concerns rather than using the latter to marginalize the former.

The Vision of Asian Women for Interreligious Dialogue

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-430
Author(s):  
Thao Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
The Church

Abstract This article discusses a special way in which Asian Catholic women have envisioned their roles in the religiously pluralistic context of Asia. By engaging in dialogue with other religions through service, inter-faith marriage, and collaboration with non-Christian women for women’s liberation, these women have used their special gifts in communicating with other women to bring about a change in relationships among people of other religions. In addition, Asian women’s theological reflection on interreligious dialogue helps enrich the church’s understanding of their role in building a relationship between the church and Asian religions.

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