Gender and Society

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  • Created by: c.therine
  • Created on: 29-12-20 11:45
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  • Contemporary secular views of gender and society
    • Contemporary Christian responses to secular gender
      • Conservative Protestant: equal but different; family as domestic haven; suspicion of feminism and liberation
        • Roman Catholic: Mulieris Dignitatem; vocation of women as mother; monogamous heterosexual family; suspicion of existential views of gender
      • Liberal Protestant: parenthood as choice; acceptance of different kinds of non-traditional family; new covenant ideal
        • Catholic Feminism: radical gender equality among first Christians; feminist theology support for non-traditional families; critique of mulierus dignitatum
    • gender and power: essentialist/ existentialist views of gender
      • feminism: first wave (equality rights) second wave (patriarchy)
        • Betty Friedan: women must break free from the motherhood 'mystique'
        • women in society: armed forces; judges; directors of companies; glass ceiling
        • Simone de Beauvoir: predefined gender roles are false-consciousness; no eternal feminine
      • Michel Foucault: gender controlled by institutions; ars erotica
    • Family trends: decline in religious marriages; increase in co-habitation; same-sex families; single parent families; is there an ideal family?

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