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That vision, of America's mothers and daughters going into battle and coming back maimed or in body bags, was precisely what traditionalist commanders had fought against for so long. Just last month, the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Merrill McPeak, told a group of female officers, "I think it is a mistake to open up bombers and fighters to women. I have a culturally based hang-up. I can't get over this image of old men ordering young women into combat." Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness in Livonia, Michigan, blasted the Administration after...
...women's movement, especially within Catholicism, is often linked to other emotional positions, including acceptance of birth control, abortion and homosexuality. It is by no means only men who view these developments with alarm. The movement's goal, warns traditionalist Donna Steichen, author of Ungodly Rage, is nothing less than "the overthrow of Christianity. It's not about advancing women in positions in the church. It's about a complete change in theology. Are we talking about a church founded by the Son of God made man? Or are we talking about simply a social gathering that we can rebuild...
Under pressure from reformers, the American bishops also faced a surprise countermovement among traditionalist women. St. Louis, Missouri, housewife Helen Hull Hitchcock, 51, gathered five friends at her dining-room table in 1984 to write a petition defending the Pope's teachings and attacking ideologies that "seek to eradicate the natural and essential distinction between the sexes." They passed the petition along and found themselves with an astonishing 50,000 signers. Hitchcock now runs the lay lobby Women for Faith & Family, which has prodded the hierarchy rightward. Their efforts are complemented by a coalition of antifeminist nuns that received Rome...
After Abe's sperm had successfully penetrated Sarah's unfrozen eggs, DNA analysis revealed that all the embryos were healthy. Sarah and Abe decided to implant just one, destined to be a male. But because Sarah was something of a traditionalist, she opted to carry the baby herself rather than enlist the services of either an artificial womb or one of the center's 18-year-old surrogate mothers. A round of hormone therapy rejuvenated Sarah's uterus, and nine months later Isaac was born...
From my perspective this means taking a look at Beloved without the backdrop of the feminist and traditionalist movements. The focus is shifted on how I, as a woman, love--how I connect, how I feel, how I value myself, how I see the world...