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Challenges for early women in public speakers
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-Theological
-Biological -Sociological |
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Theological
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Bible says women are supposed to be silent and not speak in public or in church-many men and women believed this to be true-some still believe it to be true today.
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Apostle Paul- particular section where he advises women not to preach and not to teach others particular men to preach.
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Biological
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women's participation in the public sphere is physically dangerous.
-Great deal of concern that women who are pregnant will give birth during a speech. |
What if a woman begins to menstruate while speaking in public?
-Better and safer for women to stay at home. |
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Sociological
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claimed that women's participation in the public sphere is a threat to social order because it takes women our of their homes and doesn't let them take care of their families.
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-this says that if this happens it will lead to the decline of our society
-still a problem today-also still an issue for some people. |
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Early religious speakers often left out of public address histories
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earliest speakers were preachers and we often leave these women out.
-200 years before secular women spoke these women preachers spoke |
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Christian Primitivism informed all of the strategies Casey discusses
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Going back to the church that the way it was practiced in the New Testament of the Christian scriptures.
-specifically the book of Acts. -Many modern practices were considered inferior to this Primitive way. -Quakers made this argument |
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Tradition of women oratory established in 4 ways
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-Prophetic persona
-Biblical precedent -Opposing oppressive structures of sexism & racism -Vernacular, oral style of preaching |
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Prophetic persona from which to speak
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Prophets get messages from God. As for filling a "calling."
-Speaking because they had to even if they didn't want to or felt uneasy about it. -Saying that they are not trying to be rambunctious but saying they they are called to do it. "I rather not do it but I have to." |
-opposition to its message proves it legitimacy--the message from God is making you uncomfortable and that's why you're resisting me.
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Biblical precedent
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look back at Acts Ch.2-beginning of the church-finding of the church=Joel=SPIRIT will fall on SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
-Early speakers pointed out that the first Easter speakers were women=Mary Magdalene=proclaim the resurrection of Christ. Audience is 10 skeptical men=1st Easter sermon. |
Jesus intended for the equality of the sexes in the church because didn't say so otherwise.
-Jesus never said that women couldn't preach. |
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Opposing oppressive structures of sexism & racism
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attacked in the church and in society.
-Harriet Livermore-not to serve man but be an equal with man.-also I'm not married so that doesn't apply to me. |
women=racial equality and opposition to slavery.
-some women were in favor in racial equality. -after civil war largely women lead the anti-lenching campaigns. |
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Vernacular, oral style of preaching
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rather then the ardit literate style of preaching.
-preachers used to make an argument with three points-preachers were most educated people because they had to teach the congregation. |
-Primitive women believed that these women believed that this wasn't what God intended.
-Biblical example was illiterate, extemporaneous or impromptu preaching. |
