In the article by Rose Solari titled “In Her Own Image”, she talks about the idea that woman should be allowed to be heads, leaders, priests, or pastors of their church (Solari 19-27) . However, the bible states in many different scriptures or verses that women should not. In the Lutheran Missouri Synod denomination of Christianity, they believe that God has many places in the bible that go against the women being religious leaders above men. These examples are more popularly found in the New Testament which is odd because that is where most people look for a more realistic way of living in this generation. However, the examples are found throughout.
Aubey was unable to save his sister because of the promise he had made to his friend Aubrey. According to William he states that “I need but little, my life ebbs apace I cannot explain the whole but if you would conceal all you know of me, my honor were free from stain in the world’s mouth and if my death were unknown for some time in England but life” (William Polidori pg14). In conclusion, Christianity and sexuality are found to be evident continuously throughout the novels. Sexuality is stipulated as a factor in Christianity according to the writers of the novels. The norms of the society sexuality is largely based on their religion, like marriage flirting and most of the other sexual behaviors.
In the first of his story it was the Widow Douglas that was trying and at the end it was Aunt Sally. Here were two traditional Christian American women that conformed to all the rules of society. In the eyes of society, this made them and their kind civilized. Twain’s satire here is on being “civilized”. What made this an American idea was that Huck Finn, even though he did not know it, was antiestablishment, he did not have to follow the rules set by society.
Protestant/Humanist universities: University of Wittenberg and the Geneva Academy—later the University of Geneva C. The Reformation and the Changing Role of Women 1. Protestant were opposed the medieval/Catholic view of women and temptresses and comparing them to Mary 2. Protestants encouraged clergy to marry and have families 3. Women were praised for their vocation as wives and mothers—but they were still subject to their husbands 4. Protestant men viewed their wives as companions in their work, not distractions 5.
The House of Lords also held this opinion, they felt that because Queen Elizabeth was a women that she should not hold office or the title of supreme head of the church of England. The House of Lords argued that Christ had not called a women to be a preacher, healer or apostle,so what gave Queen Elizabeth, a women, the right to be head of the church (Doc 2). It should be kept in mind that the House of Lords remained an all male assembly until 1958, so their bias against women ruling would be quite present. One man went on record saying that he did not fear for England, for the sole reason that Queen Elizabeth shared her power with Parliament (Doc 4), who happened to consist of all men. Queen Elizabeth realized her opponents position and used their argument against them.
She reveals that she does not need any sort of “autocritee” to support her experiences of marriage, “of tirbulacion in marriage, of which I am expert in al myn age” (ln 179) yet goes on to cite various classical and biblical characters, all of whom are men, to compare herself to. This notion of comparing herself to men with authority illustrates the Wife of Bath’s struggle during the Middle Ages to gain her own autocritee due to the societal oppression of women. The Wife of Bath continues to cite biblical textual authority to support her morals of marriage contradicting her opening passage of her prologue. If in fact she had her own authority on the morals and actions of her marriages, she would not need the support of biblical comparisons. On King Solomon she exclaims “I trowe, he had wives many oon, As wolde God it leveful were to me, To be refreshed half so ofte as he” (ln 36).
Changes in Marriage Marriage is traditionally dominated by the men while the society expects the women to submit in all forms. In the late 1800s, women were not expected to show their displeasure in any way in their marriages. People, indeed, considered marriage as the “happy-ever-after.” Being an independent widow, Kate Chopin decided to voice on behalf of the women of those times by writing stories concerning how women felt confined and suppressed both spiritually and sexually in their marriage. The general society during that period did not give room for women to be open-minded. Major socio-demographic change, however, have taken place over the last two centuries and has significantly brought changes to the institution of marriage.
They initially did not challenge male sexism or careerism but wanted opportunities for women too. White, middle-class women in the political mainstream provided most of the national leadership and much of the constituency for the new feminism. Betty Friedan’s 1963 book The Feminine Mystique identified “the problem that has no name” as the frustration of educated middle-class wives and mothers who had subordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men. Three issues initially predominated: equal treatment at school and work, an equal rights amendment, and abortion rights. Equal Treatment The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in 1961 led to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and President John F. Kennedy’s banning of sex discrimination in federal employment.
The women addressed each of the seventeen points of the men and added their own opinions on how and why women should be incorporated into them. The women were not simply rebelling against a government like the men were; instead they were appealing to the men of their country to hear their righteous cause. For example, the Man’s first Article states, “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights” while the women’s Article I says that, “Women is born free and lives equal to man in her rights.” This article by itself shows the entire essence of what the women were looking to do-declare their equality to men. To me, the women’s declaration is an obvious cry for women’s equality and rights. I think that these French women were forerunners of our own modern women’s movement that took place in the U.S.
Even so, there were two prominent women that regenerated an uproar regarding the political and social status of women. The Grimké sisters were beginning the shift back to female liberty. Angelina and Sarah Grimké were two prominent pro-active women for their time period. Politically, they were decades ahead of the antebellum ideology. They called for women to rise up against slavery together, and in doing so, would be exalting themselves, as a gender, into a role of authority.25 They used the Christian religion to help give them credibility when they discussed the equality of women and men.