Feminism – Page 2

“Just to Make a Statement”: Power, Sincerity, and the Women of the Wall

Posted on December 23, 2012December 23, 2012 by Rebecca Levi

The Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall claims that Women of the Wall "don't come to worship, they come to demonstrate." But what he chooses not to see is that separating worship from politics is a luxury... Read More

The Presence and Absence of Women: Reflections Upon The Rape of Dinah

Posted on December 3, 2012December 2, 2012 by Lauren Tuchman

In this week’s parsha, Parashat Vayishlach, we read one of the Torah’s most difficult and upsetting narratives—the rape of Dinah, the only daughter born to Jacob and Leah, by Shechem, the son of... Read More

Theology of the Body, Episode I: The Orans Gesture in Christian Prayer

Posted on November 4, 2012November 3, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong

This is the first installment in an ongoing series that will explore issues in spirituality through a review of significant symbolic motions, poses, and gestures from a variety of religious traditions... Read More

The Beginning of Men

Posted on September 19, 2012September 19, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as The Beginning of Men on Blogcritics. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adap... Read More

A Response from an Oxymoron: A Review of Sasha Brookner’s essay “Muhammad’s Mistresses”

Posted on June 24, 2012July 25, 2018 by Ikhlas Saleem

In reading Sasha Brookner’s essay, “Muhammad’s Mistresses,” I was initially furious with Brookner’s outlined attack against Muslim feminists. But upon reading further my anger was exchanged ... Read More

“Toward a Gender-Aware Approach to Abrahamic Dialogue,” by Virginia A. Spatz

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies

Interfaith dialogue, in practice, frequently overlooks gender as a key element in faith experiences, despite academic recognition of gender’s interaction with spirituality, religious experience,... Read More

Coming Out: stepping out of the closet and the church

Posted on April 2, 2012May 4, 2013 by Mary Ann Kaiser

I came out as a lesbian this past year. I spent the first 25 years of my life living with straight privilege but struggling internally with what was “wrong” with me. Coming out has been indescriba... Read More

Rise up, Sotah: Contraception, Religion, and Slut-Shaming

Posted on March 13, 2012March 13, 2012 by Rebecca Levi

One of the great things about the technological age is that we have a range of medicines and devices that make it possible to have a fulfilling sex life while significantly reducing the risk of an unp... Read More

IWD: To celebrate or to mark?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Myriam Francois-Cerrah

On the 101st International Women’s Day – like many women, I’m faced with a mixed bag of emotions. I want to celebrate our achievements, our gains, our pioneers – but I’ve also just retur... Read More

Reformer, Revolutionary, or Rationalist? Three Types of Feminism

Posted on November 10, 2011November 11, 2011 by Kile Jones

What do Martin Luther and Mary Daly have in common? They both realized that they could not reform the Roman Catholic Church from “the inside-out.” They came to believe that some institutions, ev... Read More