On the Importance of Labels
As promised, this post accompanies the Christian Feminist Podcast’s first episode, “Introductions and Intersections (Part 1).” (You can find the show notes here, and the episode here or on iTunes.) In...
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Convent Thoughts and Purity Culture
A nun stands in thought within a walled garden in Charles Allston Collins’s Convent Thoughts (1851). The painting emphasizes the sexless purity of the nun, with her downcast eyes and her featureless...
View Article“And Women”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” So states the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, the product of the Seneca Falls Convention led by Elizabeth...
View ArticleComplementarianism: A Quick Introduction
Simone de Beauvoir famously states in The Second Sex that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” That recognition of gender as a social construction would underlie much of second-wave...
View Article(In)Visibility and Privilege
I felt strangely vulnerable as I made my way through the London Underground one evening last September. I was dressed normally, and I wasn’t carrying anything particularly valuable. But I found myself...
View ArticleThe Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men
I recently introduced one of my classes to Lucrezia Marinella, an early modern Venetian writer who published The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men in 1600. I think...
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