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The Oppressed Have Become the Oppressors

As part of my exercise in reading primary sources, I've started  Women Caught in the Conflict: The Culture War between Traditionalism and Feminism . I am well aware that the author, Rebecca Groothuis, is an evangelical feminist which is precisely why I am reading her book. The traditional side is not without its prejudices and stereotypes, so I want to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. So far Women Caught in the Conflict has been very thought-provokoing. Groothuis lays some groundwork by giving a history of the women's rights movement in American history and the influence on and from the church.  She also spends time delineating the various streams of secular feminist thought. This section was interesting in the light of Rosaria Butterfield's prior life as a lesbian feminist. However, feminism is not a monolithic ideology, and to lump these streams together is, in my opinion, a misrepresentation. To include egalitarianism with secular feminism is inaccurate a...