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Raising Up EstherWorkshop
Nurturing the Nations
  • The Disappearance of Women

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Part 2 THE LIE ROOT OF THE POVERTY
  • 3 The Framework
  • 4 The Crushing of Women
  • 5 The Culture of Sexism
  • 6 The Disappearance of Women

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Vae victis!Woe to the conquered!
  • In the codes of all the nations which are
    called civilized, man has written the laws which
    govern the destiny of women in these cruel terms
    Vae victis!
  • Honore de Balzac
  • (1799-1850)

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Misogyny
  • miso (hatred)
  • gyne (woman)
  • Misogyny the hatred of woman

5
The Irony
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Social Darwinism
  • The chief distinction in the intellectual
    powers of the two sexes is shown by man's
    attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he
    takes up, than can woman whether requiring deep
    thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the
    use of the senses and hands. We may also infer
    that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence
    over women in many subjects, the average of
    mental power in man must be above that of woman.
  • Charles Darwin

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The Death of Female
  • Femalicide The death of woman
  • Feminicide The death of the feminine metaphysic
  • In the modern world a single, unfettered,
    male is the ideal!

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The Disappearance of Women
  • By entering the public sphere at the expense of
    the private, woman legitimated the male world and
    rejected her own.
  • Lilian Calles Barger
  • Eves Revenge

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The Disappearance of Women
  • These movements allow us to become, in a
    sense, invisible as women and able to navigate
    the male-defined public world with less notice.
  • Lilian Calles Barger
  • Eves Revenge

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The Rise of Feminism
  • Christ was the first feminist
  • First wave Maternal Feminism
  • Second wave Modern Feminism
  • Third wave Post-modern Feminism

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First Wave Feminists Maternal Feminism
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First Wave Maternal Feminism
  • 19th early 20th century
  • Biblical worldview or its memory
  • Interested in others
  • Woman valued in
  • Being - humanity
  • Function - motherhood

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Maternal Feminists Fight
  • Against male value system and power structure
  • To get women out of the sweatshops and into the
    home
  • For a family wage
  • Pro-life
  • Abolition of slavery
  • Womens suffrage

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Maternal Feminists Leaders
  • Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1850-1902)

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Second WaveModern Feminism
  • Mid to late 20th century
  • Secular Humanism Meta-narrative
  • Interested in self
  • Women valued in their being but not in their
    function

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Modern Feminists Fight
  • Stood against female value system
  • To get women out of the home into the marketplace
  • Pro-abortion
  • Sexual revolution sex without responsibility

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Shapers of Modern Feminism
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Influence of Communism
  • Materialism Human beings are instruments of
    production
  • Womans ideal place is in the workplace
  • Womans worth is as a producer of products, not
    children

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Modern Feminist
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Worth in the Market Place
  • Money is the marker of success in a market
    economy it usually accompanies power, and it
    enables the bearer to wield power, including
    within the family.
  • Linda Hirshman
  • Brandeis University

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Mothers Are Like Animals
  • man was set apart from other animals by his
    minds power to have an idea, a vision, and
    shape the future to it. .. when he discovers, and
    creates and shapes a future different from his
    past, he is a man, a human being.
  • Betty Friedan
  • The Feminine Mystique

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Being Female is Second Class
  • The things that men used to do to degrade women,
    now modern feminists use to degrade women!

23
Peter Drucker on Modern Feminists
  • We are busily unmaking one of the proudest
    social achievements in the nineteenth century,
    which was to take married women out of the work
    force so that they could devote themselves to
    family and children.

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Be Child Free!
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For a woman to be all she can be, she must be
child free!
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The Anti-Maternal
  • Women who change their childrens diapers have
    "voluntarily become untouchables." - Professor
    Hirshman
  • Vacuuming the living room floor with or
    without makeup is not work that takes enough
    thought or energy to challenge any womans full
    capacity. - Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique

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Un-Pregnant
  • Enabled women to be like men
  • Not pregnant
  • In the marketplace
  • When sexism and feminism define personhood as
    being male not pregnant then knives and
    chemicals make women like men!

28
The Pill
  • For the average woman, the pill has provided a
    way to divorce sex from procreation, so she can
    make herself available to any sexual partner she
    chooses at the moment. A woman is now considered
    to be available 24/7/365.
  • Lilian Calles Barger
  • Eves Revenge

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Emptying the WombAbortion
  • The widely practiced violence of abortion is
    not a sign of progress but a sign that womens
    reproductive ability needs to be exterminated in
    order for society to go forward. In an
    environment hostile to womens bodies and through
    abortion, women participate in a war against
    their own bodies, objectifying them.
  • Barger
  • Eves Revenge

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Consequences of the Anti-Maternal
  • Fertility in eighty-three countries
    representing 44 of the worlds population has
    fallen below replacement levels in the developed
    countries, the net reproduction rate is 0.7 and
    dropping, which means that the next generation
    will be only 70 as large as this one.1
  • Philip Yancey

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Radical Individualism
  • me not us
  • self absorption not self sacrificing
  • being in authority, never under authority
  • self serving rather than other serving
  • personal freedom without personal responsibility

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Third Wave FeminismPost-modern Feminism
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Third Wave FeministsPost-modern Feminism
  • Late 20th and early 21st century
  • Secular Humanism No Meta-narrative
  • Interested in
  • Overthrowing male female distinctions
  • Interchangeability
  • Female and male are equal (the same)

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Post-modernism
  • There is no Meta-narrative like
  • Biblical Theism
  • Darwinism
  • No Essentialism The idea that men and women are
    essentially different
  • 1st Wave Women and men are different and equal
  • 2nd Wave Men and women are different and men
    are better

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Post-modernism
  • 3rd Wave Feminism
  • There is no meta-narrative
  • Monism All is one!
  • All distinctions blur and disappear
  • Application
  • In the metaphysics of sex no masculine and
    feminine
  • In the biology of sex no male and female

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Post-modern FeministsFight
  • Stand against male value system
  • Against sexual distinctions
  • Promote Androgyny
  • Transcendent sexuality disappears
  • Maleness and femaleness disappears

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Androgyny
  • Two Greek words
  • andros male
  • gyne female
  • Androgyny literally means
  • male and female in one

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Androgynous Life Forms
  • Paramecium
  • Amoeba

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The Metaphysical Roots of Androgyny
  • Neo-paganism
  • Monism All is one
  • Pantheism everything is god!
  • Religions of Neo-paganism
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism
  • Taoism
  • New Age

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Pagan Animism
  • Sophia of the Greeks
  • Astarte of the Phoenicia
  • Cybel the mother goddess of Phrygia

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The Metaphysic of Androgyny
  • Monism All is one!
  • This leads to a transcendent androgynous (fusion
    of masculine and feminine)
  • Because the metaphysical root is androgyny,
    ultimately
  • gender roles are interchangeable
  • sex itself is elastic

42
Michel FoucaultGodfather of Androgyny
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Sociological Maxim
  • Before changing a society, you must first change
    the language of the culture
  • Whoever controls the language controls the culture

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Elasticity of Language
  • Sacredness of Life
  • Abortion
  • Pro-Life
  • Baby
  • Sex
  • Quality of Life
  • Pro-Choice
  • Anti-Choice
  • Tissue or product of conception
  • Gender

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Deconstructing Sex
  • Sex
  • Biological term
  • Implies distinction i.e. male and female.
  • Is not elastic
  • Is grounded in the essence of biological and
    psychological differentiation.
  • Gender
  • Sociological term
  • Defined by societal usage
  • Gender is elastic.
  • We can construct our own reality

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Lifestyle Choices
  • Heterosexual traditional female and male
  • Homosexual gay and lesbian
  • Bisexual relating sexually to both men and women
  • Transvestites someone who dresses and acts like
    someone of the opposite sex
  • Transgender someone who has undergone surgery to
    change their sex

47
Change DefinitionMarriage
  • Marriage A sacred covenant, before God, between
    one man and one woman until death do us part!
  • Marriage A social contract, before a civil
    society, between a man and a woman until we
    divorce.
  • Marriage A personal commitment between
    consenting adults as long as it is convenient.

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  • In the Postmodern world, secular materialism
    is being combined with a pagan spirituality to
    shape a new language and ultimately a whole new
    world order.

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Promoting Androgyny
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The Elasticity of SexGender Confusion
  • There is no ultimate meaning to our sexuality or
    to our bodies
  • There are no role distinctions between men and
    women
  • Equality, in modern feminism, means sameness

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The Elasticity of SexGender Confusion
  • This interchangeability takes place
  • In work - the Marketplace
  • In the military
  • In the home
  • In the church
  • It is even being pushed in the act of procreation

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The Proto Change
  • Began with 2nd Wave Feminism
  • Unisex clothing
  • Unisex hair styles
  • Cross-dressing
  • as either a uniform (women wearing ties and
    vests)
  • as a sexual statement (men dressing as women or
    women dressing in mens clothing)

53
Proto Change
  • University Campus Housing
  • First, separated dorms
  • Second, men and women to house in the same dorms,
    but on different floors
  • Third, men and women living on the same floors
    but in different rooms
  • Fourth, men and women inhabit gender neutral
    facilities, using the same rooms, restrooms and
    showers

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Post-modern Feminisms Blank Slate
  • The body becomes plastic, inscribed with
    gender and cultural standards. The constitution
    of the body rests in its inscription the body
    becomes the text which is written upon it and
    from which it is indistinguishable.
  • Pippa Brush
  • 3rd Wave Feminist

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Our Bodies Are A Blank Slate
  • In Postmodernism, our bodies reveal nothing. They
    are
  • A blank canvas upon which to paint
  • A blank piece of paper upon which to write
  • A white board on which to draw

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Writing on the Body
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Cutting the Flesh Pt. 1Vanity
  • Cosmetic Surgery
  • Liposuction

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Deconstructing Sexuality
  • Transsexual surgery
  • Reproductive technology
  • Abortion sculpting the womb like a man
  • Sperm bank donor sperm for
  • Single women
  • Lesbian couples
  • (Research) genetic material from lesbian or
    homosexual couple used to make an egg and sperm,
    so child is genetic makeup of both partners

59
The Elasticity of the Body
  • 3rd Wave Feminists and Queer Theory advocates
  • Denying the reality of the hard facts of biology
  • Affirming the opinion of ideology

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The Cutting Edge ofSocietal Devolution
  • Polygamy many spouses
  • Pedophilia sex with children (already moving
    into the mainstream)
  • Necrophilia sex with dead bodies
  • Bestiality sex with animals

61
Historian William Manchester
  • The erasure of distinctions between the
    sexes is not only the most striking issue of our
    time, it may be the most profound the race has
    ever confronted.1

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Evangelical Feminism
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Francis Schaeffer
  • Tell me what the world is saying today, and
    Ill tell you what the church will be saying
    seven years from now.

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Heeding the Crushing of Women
  • Much of the church in the western world has
    correctly, if slowly, recognized and responded to
    the crushing of women by Sexism.

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Distinctions
  • Christian Feminists
  • More consciously secularists
  • Challenge the authority of Scripture
  • Represent the liberal wing of the church
  • Evangelical Feminists or Biblical Feminists
  • Have a high view of Scripture
  • Would claim to believe in the authority of
    Scripture
  • Desire to challenge the traditional
    interpretation of Scripture - specifically in the
    realm of hierarchy roles in the church and in the
    family

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Trinitarian Equality
  • All human beings are made in the image of God
  • All human beings have one blood
  • All humans are equal in dignity, value and worth
  • Unity and diversity in community

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Monistic Equalitarianism
  • Function from philosophic and religious Monism
    god is one, absolutely and indivisibly one
  • Response to Atomism - absolute differentiation -
    Sexism
  • Egalitarian asserts that to be equal means to be
    the same undifferentiated, interchangeable,
    identical, or indistinguishable

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Monistic Equalitarianism
  • Affirms the equality of human beings at the
    expense of diversity
  • Deny transcendent masculine and feminine
  • Deny that there is any role or function
    differentiation between women and men
  • Promote role interchangeability for men and women
  • Ultimately leads to androgyny

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The Hermeneutical Principle
  • Evangelical feminists tend to compromise
    Trinitarianism with Monism
  • The weight being towards Monism
  • The worldview of Monism creates the framework for
    their hermeneutical principle

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Critique of Evangelical Feminists
  • Biblical feminists formulated a definition of
    equality for Christian women that concurred with
    the definition put forth by secular society.
    Equality meant role-interchangeability. With this
    definition in hand, Biblical feminists turned to
    the Bible. They found that while the Bible did
    teach the essential equality of women and men, it
    also taught role differentiation....1

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  • . In order to harmonize the Bibles teachings
    with their view of equality, these feminists
    found it necessary to determine which Scriptural
    texts were dynamic and which were static, which
    were inspired and which were the authors bias,
    which were true and which were in error. In doing
    so, Biblical feminists adopted a feminist
    mind-set.

72
  • Christian feminists adopted this mentality when
    they used their own definition of equality to
    judge the validity and applicability of the
    Bible. Even for conservative evangelical
    feminists, womens experience became the new norm
    for Biblical study and theological
    interpretation.

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Elasticity of the Bible
  • God the
  • Father
  • Son
  • Holy Spirit
  • Son
  • He/She
  • His/Hers
  • God the
  • Creator
  • Redeemer
  • Sustainer
  • Child
  • They/Them
  • Theirs

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Cut From the Same Cloth
  • religious and secular feminism were of the
    same essence. They were based on the same
    presuppositions, and were therefore destined to
    intersect and merge. The alteration of
    God-language and the increasing hermeneutic of
    liberty employed by feminist theologians had
    catapulted the religious movement forward onto
    the same path as that of secular feminism.
  • Mary Kassian The Feminist Gospel

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The Rise of AndrogynyIn the Church
  • As Evangelical Feminists race towards the
    interchangeability of the sexes they rob men and
    women of the glory of their uniqueness and
    contribute to
  • the disappearance of women!
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