God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with FeminismWhat does it mean to be a religious conservative, particularly for women, in America today? While it appears that people are returning to conservative religion because they are fed up with the excesses of liberalism, including feminism, a closer look at the lives of religious conservatives reveals a more complex reality. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant communities, Christel Manning explores the diversity among women who have returned to tradition. Arguing that America has undergone profound cultural and economic changes in the last thirty years, which create tension between women's lives and traditional gender roles, she demonstrates that conservative Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and Evangelical Protestants negotiate those tensions in different ways. Manning also shows that women in conservative religious communities share many of the same concerns as secular women. Manning looks at how the religious communities profiled have been influenced by feminist values and describes the ways in which these women negotiate gender roles at work, religious services, and at home. She explains how they deal with the inconsistencies created by their attempts to integrate feminist and traditionalist norms. In highly accessible prose, Manning examines their attitudes towards the feminist movement, its impact on American culture, and the extent to which the women seek to resist it. God Gave Us the Right explains how these different views of feminism reflect the diverse theologies and historical experiences of the three communities. |
Contents
Stories of Ordinary Women | 3 |
The Rhetoric of the Elite | 35 |
Three Conservative Religious Communities | 61 |
Yes to Feminist Values | 85 |
Traditionalists in Church and Synagogue | 104 |
But What about the Home? | 124 |
Understanding Inconsistency | 150 |
No to the Feminist Movement | 165 |
Conflict with Secular AmericaAbortion | 197 |
Understanding the Differences | 218 |
Survey and Interview Questions | 239 |
Notes | 247 |
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God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and ... Christel Manning No preview available - 1999 |
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References to this book
Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles Julie Ingersoll No preview available - 2003 |