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What evangelicals have failed to realize, explains historian Randall Balmer, is that the “traditional concept of femininity” that we believe to be from the Bible is nothing more than “a nineteenth-century construct.”
Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
She was tiny and delicate, which made me feel weird about myself, so I cut off all my hair and bleached it. I decided to be an imposing, sexy sort of tall girl.
Caroline O'Donoghue • The Rachel Incident
aims to “educate people on what they can do to defend, protect and promote traditional, biblical values,” decried the partnership between the Born This Way Foundation and Office Depot. The organization was upset that Office Depot was selling a line of back-to-school items with the Foundation’s messages on them and donating 25 percent of the sales
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novas forças sociais da pornografia da beleza e pelo sadomasoquismo, que surgiram para devolver a culpa, a vergonha e a dor à experiência feminina do sexo.
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)
As jovens de hoje herdaram vinte anos de propaganda da caricatura da Feminista Feia. Por isso “sou feminina, não feminista”,
Naomi Wolf • O mito da beleza: Como as imagens de beleza são usadas contra as mulheres (Portuguese Edition)


and felt the joy of being an “equal” in her relationship.
Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past
We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form.