Friday, August 24, 2007  World Vision and Gender Equity
Dyspraxic Fundamentalist said...  I am not sure World Vision is
an organisation I would necessarilly support, but I am sure they
do some good work.  I do not think Evangelicals appreciate the
contextual difficulties in importing their gener assumptions.
The big problem with the conservative Evangelical discourse on
gender is the fact that it ignores or marginalizes violence
against women. There is an operative assumption that violence
against women is sub-normal and therefore can be excluded from
the discourse of male-female relations.  A friend of mine was a
missionary in Albania. He once overheard to men talking about
him:  Man 1: Do you think that missionary, Andrew, beats his
wife?  Man 2: Of course he does, every man beats his wife!  The
big question is; in a situation where male to female violence is
normalised and accepted, how does the Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood message come across? Does it not justify and re-
inforce male to female viole