McKnight reviews Maggie Doherty's book on the 'equivalents' at the Radcliffe Institute, which he treats as the birth of second wave feminism. He recommends it as history and as a guide to starting movements. He ties 1950s gender scripts to evangelical complementarianism, argues that women faced systemic barriers, and encourages readers to join the next stage of the fight for women.
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Its text teaches none of the positions Doxa lists.
Christians should support women in the church and want to see them empowered.
Evangelical complementarianism is 1950s role-playing for women and wives, assigned to God and shaped by the traditional scripts of the era's TV.
Women of the 1950s and 60s faced systemic disadvantages: a society built by men for men made it hard for women to flourish intellectually and professionally, and academic structures reinforced this.
- Endorses a source· Maggie Doherty, The Equivalents: The Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
The second wave feminist movement began with the 'equivalents' at the Radcliffe Institute, and Doherty's book is a worthwhile history of that origin that anyone empowering women or shaping a movement should read.
Gains for women today are owed to the feminist movement, and Christians should join the next stage of the fight for women.
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