
Over the last four decades, women's roles have changed dramatically — at home, in the work force and in religious institutions as well. In America, resistance to this is often couched in religious terms. Where there is a backlash against feminism and its repercussions, it is often embodied in religious practice. Host Krista Tippett speaks with three devoutly religious women who also call themselves feminist.
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This is a detail view of a fresco that adorns La Collegiata, a hotel that was once a Franciscan convent in the town of San Gimignano in Italy's Tuscany region. The fresco is a starkly literal interpretation of Genesis 2:21-23, where God creates Eve from one of Adam's ribs.
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Senior research analyst for the Islam section of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
Evangelical Christian feminist; professor of philosophy and psychology at Eastern University in St. David's, Pa.



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