Title: From Femme to Fatale
1From Femme to Fatale
- Faith and the Feminine
- in Todays Culture
2A Higher Ambition
- Who ever heard of a Philadelphia lady setting up
for a reformer or standing out for woman's
rights, or assisting to man the election grounds,
raise a regiment, command a legion, or address a
jury?
3A Higher Ambition
- Our ladies glow with a higher ambition.
- They soar to rule the hearts of their
worshippers, and secure obedience by the sceptre
of affection.... - Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript,
July 20,1848
4- Can you deny that a woman is by nature very
different from a man? - Of course not.
- And isnt it appropriate to assign different
work to each in accordance with its nature? - Certainly.
- How is it, then, that you arent mistaken and
contradicting yourselves when you say that men
and women must do the same things, when their
natures are so completely separate and distinct? - Socrates and Glaucon
- Plato, Republic
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6Best Picture, 1979
7Joanna Kramer
"I have gone away because I must find some
interesting things to do for myself in the
world. Everybody has to, and so do I. Being
your mommy was one thing, but there are other
things and this is what I have to do. . .
8power
WORK
SEX
9Power ? Work?
10Power ? Sex?
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12Maternalism v. Feminism
Florence Kelley
. . .Women cannot achieve true equality with men
by securing identity of treatment under the
law. . .
Alice Paul Equal Rights Amendment
13Married Moms with Babies
At Home Part-Time 63
14Abortion and Female Empowerment
15Abortion Survivor Marathon Runner
Gianna Jessen
16Rediscovering Feminist History
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of
women. Alice Paul
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20Lady
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22Power or Purpose
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24There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female
for you are all one in Christ Jesus. .
.Galatians 328
25I arose as a mother to Israel. Deborah, the
Judge Judges 57
26Thy Will Be Done. . .
27The Penta-Posse
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