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the great adventure – Maude Royden
Selecting only 40 first-wave feminists is hard enough but how is possible to round off such a list? Perhaps only by recalling one who, as a multi-faceted pioneer, crossed many different barriers and whose loving critique of the Church remains … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Edward Hicks, Catherine Bramwell Booth, Cheltenham College, christian feminism, Church, church feminism, Church League for Women's Suffrage, Church of England, City Temple, Doctor of Divinity, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Gandhi, Guildhouse, Hudson Shaw, Labour Party, Lady Margaret Hall, League of Nations, Maude Royden, Mossley Hill, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, No-Conscription Fellowship, NUWSS, ordination of women, pacifism, peace, Peace Army, Peace Pledge Union, Radclyffe Hall, Sex and Common-Sense, sexuality, Society for the Ministry of Women, South Luffenham, The Well of Loneliness, Ursula Roberts, Victoria Women's Settlement, Wirral, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, women's suffrage
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daring to ask for women’s ordination – Ursula Roberts
Some things, such as sexuality and women’s ordination, were steered clear of by most first-wave Christian feminists. Even when they supported changes, most held back, in the interests of nurturing more conservative support for issues which were more ‘practical politics’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelphi magazine, Anglican, Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women, christian feminism, Church League for Women's Suffrage, Church of England, Crick, League of the Church Militant, Lettice Delmer, Maude Royden, nuclear disarmament, NUWSS, ordination of women, pacifism, Persephone, prostitution, Rugby, Society for the Ministry of Women, suffrage movement, Susan Miles, Ursula Roberts, W.C.Roberts, William Corbett Roberts
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christian feminism among bishops – Edward Hicks
Christian feminism, as has already been seen, takes many forms. Organisationally, most feminists would tend towards ‘flat’ structures and democracy. Yet this does not mean that more hierarchical forms cannot be places in which women’s issues and opportunities are not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, christian feminism, Church League for Women's Suffrage, Church of England, Church of England Peace League, Edith Picton-Turbervill, Edward Hicks, Hugh Chapman, Hulme Hall, John Bunyan, Lincoln, liturgy, Manchester, Maude Royden, militants, Salford, women's suffrage
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determination and diplomacy – Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Today’s leading UK campaigning organisation for women’s equality and rights (at home, work and in public life) is known as the Fawcett Society. Its by-line includes ‘working for women’s rights since 1866’ with very good reason. For its name and … Continue reading
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Tagged christian feminism, Christian Socialism, Church of England, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Davies, F.D.Maurice, Fawcett Society, Josephine Butler, Labour Party, Langham Place Circle, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, NUWSS, Pankhursts, women's suffrage, WSPU
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mainstreaming Christian feminism – Louise Creighton
Any great movement for change begins at the margins and only later gains momentum in the centre of things. When adopted by others, it can change its shape in some different directions. Yet it then begins to become accepted in … Continue reading
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Tagged Church of England, liberty to serve, Louise Creighton, women's movement, women's suffrage
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transforming patriarchal marriage and poverty – Hugh Chapman
Historically, marriage has been both a joy and means of grace to human society and a variegated form of social definition. Today it continues to be source of controversy, not least in conflicts over its gendered and same-sex forms, as … Continue reading
