Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your story of Female Theologian V. S. Goldstein and her "feminine complaint against contemporary theologians" reminds one of the story that was current a generation ago about the late Feminist Susan Anthony...
...family. One brother controls central Viet Nam; another is Ambassador to London; a third is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vinhlong. Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother Nhu's advice on army promotions, government appointments and business contracts...
...bitter Moslem woman recalls: "As I entered my husband's House of Obedience, he began to take revenge. He used to order me to stand naked most of the night, and beat me." The House of Obedience was the most important but not the only feminist objection to Egyptian customs. In the country districts. Moslem men often married and divorced as Western husbands buy and discard suits. There are more than 57,000 divorces annually. The deserted wife and her children were usually denied everything, and most country women, because of ignorance, did little except mourn their fate...