https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to feminism en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/22/no-rush-limbaugh-did-not-hijack-your-parents-christianity We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own eyes. The kind, noble, God-fearing uncle, father, or family friend—the salt-of-the-earth Christian man who, a decade or more ago, came under the influence of talk… Mon, 22 Feb 2021 03:25:45 EST Kristin Kobes Du Mez 635eda5f-7842-44d7-a0d0-b51020dd7616 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/16/southern-baptists-dumped-predator-or-two-lets-hold-f-word The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any connection between all-male power and the sexual abuse of women and children. Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:54:49 EDT Anne Linstatter 09faa1c8-2305-456c-8b39-8b873a782c15 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/01/how-mens-rights-activists-are-finding-unlikely-allies-new-atheism-metoo-manosphere-and Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is the number of New Atheist figureheads in which… Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:58:35 EST Caroline Matas db424a35-e0e4-4396-a50a-cc3aa08ee926 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/28/slut-assumption-myths-about-jewelry-reveal-diamonds-arent-always-girls-best-friend Author Wendy Doniger answers RD’s 10 Questions Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:00:00 EDT Wendy Doniger 77b5a8fd-6a99-4491-8eba-1935e7a375e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/16/passion-slayer-buffys-twentieth-big-bad-still-out-there Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your favorite show? Really? Aren’t you a professor… and an adult… and a Man? But to the initiated… well, to the initiated it is also a… Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:00:29 EDT Elijah Prewitt-Davis d9a2fa84-786d-4160-bc33-53970531bcaf https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/08/what-forgotten-19th-century-suffragist-can-teach-us-about-womens-rights-vs-religious 19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage sought equal rights for all, but only by rethinking religion. Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:06:19 EST S. Brent Rodriguez Plate d5b88a53-ffcc-4e5c-986e-1d551ccff519 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/02/28/irony-moral-panic-over-surplus-men You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough to turn Ross Douthat into FDR. According to Douthat, the “slow burning social crisis” in America of low workforce participation by men and concomitant lagging… Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:44:28 EST Patricia Miller 52d98576-e99e-4f10-8b53-ee004020bf1e https://religiondispatches.org/2017/01/20/why-feminisms-big-tent-isnt-big-enough-anti-abortion-movement Those big, bad pro-abortion feminists! To hear it from even stalwarts of the mainstream liberal media, they are bullying “pro-life feminists” by refusing to allow one of their organizations be an official co-sponsor of the Woman’s March on Washington. The… Fri, 20 Jan 2017 01:07:41 EST Patricia Miller 5d65c83c-7864-45e4-80d4-a73d6bb9981a https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/28/catholic-feminist-isnt-oxymoron-and-other-tales-beleaguered-tradition In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them. Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:34:38 EST Celia Wexler 8a819f4c-ee58-49c8-b2ea-831fca606273 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/07/ross-douthat-trump-womens-fault-not-having-more-babies According to NYT columnist Ross Douthat, the lousy choices available to us on election day are all women’s fault. Mon, 07 Nov 2016 11:35:57 EST Patricia Miller 6af4dd55-795a-4787-9b88-c83fd0a78a89 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/11/02/including-bono-glamours-women-year-list-two-steps-backwards “Men aren’t exactly hurting for awards in this world.” Wed, 02 Nov 2016 03:03:06 EDT Sunnivie Brydum 60a07a88-ada4-4a3a-abf9-1044cdb127db https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/06/phyllis-schlafly-1924-2016-paved-way-trump In the end, the empire she created struck back. Tue, 06 Sep 2016 11:42:16 EDT Paul Harvey 2082915d-d3b4-4b59-9e99-b6ff86530f2c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/20/do-arguments-against-bathroom-equality-hold-water Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow trans students to use the bathroom of their choice has met with the expected opposition, with the arguments against running the gamut from libertarian to… Fri, 20 May 2016 11:14:38 EDT Patricia Miller d1fc184c-cd8a-439d-9532-f99c8328c1e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/15/not-ready-forgive-hillary-clinton-ugly-truth-reagan-years Gay men of a certain age—those of us who survived the Plague Years when so many others perished, including our lovers and friends—may at times be oversensitive and even possessive in our memories of what those years were like. Three… Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:00:19 EDT Peter Laarman 14cf1498-6a94-413f-9321-b2d9ca15d046 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/26/feminist-critics-wearing-hijab-solidarity-fall-same-old-traps Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god, it was Hawkins’ decision to wear a hijab that has inspired women and girls from many backgrounds to follow suit in solidarity… Sat, 26 Dec 2015 04:07:28 EST Mariam Durrani 8a5361b5-b70a-49f6-9b80-ff140cd79a98 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/11/out-options-christians-losing-battle-over-equality In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative Christian thinkers have followed two tracks. On the one hand, writers like Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat have used the language of war, battle, and… Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:01:31 EST Kaya Oakes b1618772-d39a-4fd1-b6a4-8cdf6062e281 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/04/unbeknownst-richard-dawkins-feminist-revolution-islam-has-already-begun Despite the scientist’s impassioned tweeting that ship had already sailed. Tue, 04 Aug 2015 02:45:56 EDT Jerusha Tanner Lamptey b74be4b8-2d05-4780-8824-c377d8eb0b89 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/28/will-popes-woman-problem-alienate-young-catholics Calling Pope Francis their “holy conundrum,” Catholic scholars, theologians, activists and religious convened in Chicago on Saturday at a forum titled “Women in the Catholic Church: What Francis Needs to Know.” The participants, many of them long-time social justice activists… Tue, 28 Jul 2015 04:04:54 EDT Patricia Miller f14446a1-7af8-4a10-98a7-b0306fd22516 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/18/american-nuns-and-vatican-more-pain-promise Despite herculean efforts to make nice, the 12-page report and its presentation reinforce the Roman Catholic Church’s patriarchal power paradigm. Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:05:09 EST Mary Hunt afeef6ed-93e1-4ed4-98f5-fd30c9918f00 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/27/church-synod-recap-micromanaging-morals-others Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance. Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:18:55 EDT Mary Hunt 48f2a53b-5c8a-43c0-8035-10b70c619424 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/10/06/youve-got-male-synod-family-slideshow The Vatican flickr stream takes us behind the female-free scenes. Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:42:56 EDT Mary Hunt 3637b13c-3bf9-43d3-b700-0a71e7d2e059 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/08/08/francis-and-nuns-interview-mary-gordon Novelist, essayist and biographer Mary Gordon takes on Pope Francis’ treatment of American nuns, and by extension his and the Catholic Church’s attitudes toward women as a whole, in an essay in the August issue of Harper’s Magazine. Gordon notes… Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:10:14 EDT Patricia Miller 13beb150-b8ff-4dfe-95b9-6c7694389f23 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/07/16/how-conservative-christian-women-came-claim-true-feminism An interview with Leslie Dorrough Smith on her new book, “Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America.” Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:58:31 EDT Eric C. Miller 1d90c2df-782f-4565-93a7-0637b8740991 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/25/priests-take-stand-nuns-criticize-cardinal-muller A group of U.S. priests has sent a letter to Pope Francis criticizing Cardinal Gerhard Müller, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for his harsh takedown of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The association… Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:53:56 EDT Patricia Miller e7e5a01b-c469-457c-bbb4-98a6405ada0a https://religiondispatches.org/2014/06/03/why-i-will-not-submit-arrest-or-problem-moral-mondays Here in my beloved South, the main characters in our political drama are still men, on the left and the right, wearing clerical collars and officers’ uniforms. Moral Mondays have now started up again in North Carolina, and I am… Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:35:06 EDT Amy Laura Hall 6d95da94-3300-4661-9273-530c97a7495b