Sunday, January 15, 2012
"CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS OF GENDER: MELDING THE CHALICE AND THE BLADE TO FOSTER PEACE"
Dr. Kim Crowley
Facilitator: Tammy Hathaway

Dr. Kim Crowley will be discussing concepts posited in Riane Eisler’s, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. Eisler outlines the historical and cultural underpinnings of some of the most widely held beliefs about the sexes, including the association of the male with violence and the female with nurturing. Based on examples of historical civilizations and cultures that helped shape these understandings of the female and the male, Eisler argues against the idea that a society must be either a patriarchy or a matriarchy, meaning one sex is dominant and one is secondary. Her argument that this sort of “battle of the sexes” is “neither divinely nor biologically ordained” will be the main topic of conversation.

Dr. Crowley is an assistant professor of English and teaches writing at Bismarck State College. Her academic work includes analyses of women’s portrayal in popular media.

GUEST AT YOUR TABLE BOXES/GIFTS COLLECTED BEFORE AND AFTER SERVICE

Sunday Service and Children's Programs: 10:30 AM
Fellowship and Light Refreshments will Immediately Follow Service

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