From Femme to Fatale

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From Femme to Fatale

• Faith and the Feminine
• in Todays Culture

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A 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?

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A 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

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• 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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Best Picture, 1979
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Joanna 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. . .
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SEX
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Power ? Work?
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Power ? Sex?
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Maternalism v. Feminism
Florence Kelley
. . .Women cannot achieve true equality with men
by securing identity of treatment under the
law. . .
Alice Paul Equal Rights Amendment
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Married Moms with Babies
At Home Part-Time 63
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Abortion and Female Empowerment
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Abortion Survivor Marathon Runner
Gianna Jessen
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Rediscovering Feminist History
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of
women. Alice Paul
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Lady
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Lady
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Power or Purpose
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There 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
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I arose as a mother to Israel. Deborah, the
Judge Judges 57
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Thy Will Be Done. . .
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The Penta-Posse
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