Religion and the Women's movement

Origin :

 http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2005/02/Will-Religion-Complete-The-Womens-Movement.aspx?p=1

Purpose :

 This is an interview of a woman named Helen LaKelly Hunt, who had contributed in many women groups for more than thirty years. She is founder and president of "The Sister Fund " , which is a major contributor to women's causes. She earned her PHD at New York's Union theological Seminary, focusing especially on the religious roots of the women's movement and that she troubled the religious views were not welcome in feminist circles. This interview shows us her opinion about religion and women.

Value :

It gives the view of a person that involved in a variety of the feminist movement. She is especially focusing on religious view of the women's movement and that she seemed to be very knowledgeable for this area since she was able to write a whole book about it called "Faith and Feminism : A holy alliance".

Limitation :

Though lots of valuable information are gained from this person, she can always be bias to make people supported her more. The information she provided can always be bias

Analysis

The interview sort of relate her point of view about religion and women, and the book that she wrote about this topic. In her book, she analyzes the relationship between faith and the women's movement; she also gives five religious women who were pioneers in the struggle for women's rights. She thinks that most religion like Christians , Jewish structure their faith in a way that challenges the feminist agenda of women's voice being equal to men's. In addition, when it comes to Christianity, she said that the Pope does some very worthy things, but he obviously missed out the issue of women. Because of that, she think he has a narrow view of what feminism

is and many women have a very narrow view of what religion is