What is "Breaking Down Patriarchy"? Host Amy McPhie Allebest explains the goals and format of this book club podcast.
Did you know that the most ancient human settlements contain archeological evidence of goddess-worship? Did you know that these female-centric societies seem to have been egalitarian? Join Amy McPhie Allebest and Malia Morris as they discuss what author Riane Eisler labels “partnership cultures,” and how they were all overrun by “dominator cultures,” in this discussion of The Chalice and the Blade.
Where did patriarchy come from? What was the Agricultural Revolution, and how did it change everything for our ancestors? What were gender dynamics like at the time of the “dawn of human civilization” in the fertile crescent? Join Amy McPhie Allebest and Sherrie Crawford as they discuss the creation of patriarchy in ancient Mesopotamia.
Who were the original authors of the Bible, and when did their oral traditions become scripture? What were the social practices that informed the stories they wrote, especially regarding gender dynamics? Join Amy McPhie Allebest and Sherrie Crawford as they continue the discussion of Gerda Lerner’s The Creation of Patriarchy, highlighting the traditions of the Hebrews and the ancient Greeks.
What happened between the writing of the New Testament and the formation of the Catholic church? What impact did the worship of the Virgin Mary and female saints have on Catholic women, and what happened when the Protestant Reformation demoted Mary and the female saints? Join Amy McPhie Allebest and Sophie Allebest as they review several historical sources and analyze Art masterpieces in an exploration of the Virgin Mary and her legacy.
Did you know that women wrote plays, music, and essays during the Middle Ages and Renaissance? Did you know that women wrote feminist Biblical commentary for over 1,000 years, unknowingly repeating each other’s ideas? Gerda Lerner laments the continual “reinventing of the wheel,” as generation after generation struggled with the same questions and the same pain, unaware of the women who had come before them. Join Amy McPhie Allebest and Janette Canare as they highlight some of these women’s voices during their discussion of Gerda Lerner’s The Creation of Feminist Consciousness.
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Education: The next theme that really stands out to me is her vision for the education of women. Women are not the inferior sex, maybe physically but not intellectually. They have not been given the chance to prove themselves otherwise. Women are not inferior by nature but by consequence of miseducation. Women have been relegated to the realm of sensibility or emotion. To the frivolous and shallow, but then are mocked or scorned for it. Yet, she argues, what do we expect of them if that is the only education they are receiving. We cannot expect more from them if this is all they’re given. Like let’s cut women some slack and stop mocking them, since it’s society’s fault that they are “like this”. She also argued for women to be educated so that they were not left destitute if a man decides he no longer wants to take care of her. “Girls who have been thus weakly educated, are often cruelly left by their parents without provision; and, of course, are dependent on, not only the r...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, written by the British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.
In this groundbreaking 1791 essay, published a year before Wollstonecraft’s "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", Judith Sargent Murray claims that men are not intellectually and spiritually superior to women. The essay proposes a different way of reading the male superiority in the Bible, and criticizes educational practices that disadvantage women and girls.