Radical Womanhood Clip

Different Backgrounds, Shared Concerns About Feminism

You and I are kind of different. Well, I mean everybody's different, but you know. Yeah, you got married later on in life. You do not have kids. I got married very early in life and then I had kids. You know.

And yet I still feel Exactly the same as you. Well. Maybe I wasn't like I had kind of an idea what biblical womanhood looked like. Growing up in the church. I still had a feminist school upbringing right.

So even certain things like Submission which we're gonna talk about later. I struggled with. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, and that's why I think this is really. Well, you had mentioned that it was just really cool that both of us can have different.

Coming from different backgrounds and yet tackling the feminist issue. For both of us there's differences but.

Why the Book Matters for Young Women and Church Girls

Similarities that are absolutely absolutely because it's well, we're inundated with it and I think what really struck me with this book and she says it right in her either Introduction or a first chapter of if she was giving talks and she was running into young women that when she you know she was asking questions about what they knew as far as feminist history and This that and the other and they had absolutely no idea part of it just because of their age.

Part of it's because they grew up in the church from a very young age and just that just wasn't in their sphere, right? And yet. Because it was that had such an impact on her Growing up and it was part of her life.

And I could see that that was part of my life. There was part of me that was just like yes. Every young woman needs to know that. Actually every woman needs to know that because we forget.

The History of Feminism and Its Hidden Hypocrisies

Yeah, so a good segue into the first part of her book and looking at the kind of the history so. You actually studied some of the history in college, but you didn't get as Detailed history right or like some of the unknown background that she provides.

Oh, yeah.

I mean the background and what we'll end up talking about is just even the hypocrisy of some of the main names within these different feminist waves. I was exposed to the feminism when I was taking literature classes in college initially as a minor because I like to read so that hey, let's do this and Right from the get-go the feminist Ideology was you know put out there?

We're gonna talk about one of the authors of named Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I mean, it was one of the first authors that I read taking a literature class. And then when I moved into a master's in English, you know, you're getting Literary criticism and then there's a whole genre of feminist literary criticism.

So that's when I got a little more steeped in it and hook line and sinker. Yeah, obviously not saved my life right. Let's talk about that then.