An Understated Tale of Epic Social Change: Women's Ordination 50 Years Ago and Now
The decision to ordain women was a landmark event that was received with very little fanfare. Though the end of a century-long effort by Presbyterian women to achieve institutional recognition, the 1955 General Assembly's approval of Overture B was generally viewed as a simple act of fairness,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2005, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 105-117 |
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| Summary: | The decision to ordain women was a landmark event that was received with very little fanfare. Though the end of a century-long effort by Presbyterian women to achieve institutional recognition, the 1955 General Assembly's approval of Overture B was generally viewed as a simple act of fairness, framed by the postwar emphasis on human rights and democracy among mainline churches. It took nearly 2 decades for the ordination ruling to become a piece in the “culture wars" between feminists and their opponents. In recent decades, the female minister has become a potent symbol of perceived resistance or accomodation to secular culture; women's ordination is now very much about gender. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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