On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:14:05 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> There's some problem with the direction of causality here. Was it Ken that
> suggested a link between the women's movement and religiosity as a backlash?
> "Family Values" (which I'm reasonably sure were never invoked before the last 20 or
> 30 years) seem definitely to be aimed at the women's movement -- and defenders of
> family values then reach for religious support for what is essentially not a
> religious but a social issue (if the two can be divided that neatly??).
Large segments of the women's movement, in the early part of the century, were campaigning for family values: ie. women's place is in the home. These organizations tend to get less press than the more progressive movements.
ken