Thursday, Feb. 18: Class Discussion
Referring to the following texts:
- Stanton, Solitude of the Self, 1892
- Goodwin, Against Women’s Suffrage, 1884
- Shaw, The Fundamental Principle of a Republic, 1915 — in your text, pages 43-56
Come prepared to answer the following questions. Bring an outline of your answers so that you can refer to it during our discussion. I’ll take up this outline at the end of class.
- What would the speakers and writers from this unit say in answer to the following questions?
- What is a woman’s duty to her husband and family?
- What is her duty to herself?
- Should a woman vote or run for political office?
- Should a woman speak to an audience of men and women? Should she teach? Preach? Pastor?
- Should women serve in the military? In what role or capacity?
- What, by the way, is a man’s appropriate role and duty?
- Choose one (or two) of the following additional sources of argument — read it or listen to it, and add its perspective into the mix. (Note: None of these sources speaks to every question under number one. So you only need to report what’s relevant.)
- Contemporary Biblical Complentarian View: John MacArthur Sermon on Ephesians 5:22-24 — The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Wikipedia Page — Homepage (may be down)
- Contemporary Biblical Egalitarian View: The Basics of Biblical Equality by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis — Christians for Biblical Equality Homepage — Wikipedia page
- Phoebe Palmer, Promise of the Father, 1859 — biblical argument that women may be called by God to speak
- Lucretia Mott, Discourse on Woman, 1849 — biblical arguments in defense of women’s equality
- Recent Book: “The Surrendered Wife” — Website (see free sample mp3 download) — Amazon.com (see reader comments)
- Recent News Articles: More Men Marrying Wealthier Women – NYTimes, 2010 and Women at war face sexual violence – BBC News, 2009