Resumen de What the Struggle over Ordination Reveals about Feminism in Conservative Denominations

Mary J. Neitz, Karen A. Bradley

• For many conservative religious groups, the rights for women – including birth control and abortion, as well as access to ordination in the church and equality with men at home – stand for encroaching modernity and loss of a valued past. Mass media often map feminists as secular, and women who belong to conservative churches as gender reactionaries. Our research has shown us the ways that some women who have stayed within conservative churches agitate and negotiate for gender equity. This paper offers a denominational level analysis of internal struggles with women’s organizations over gender equity within the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist. Convention, highlighting the complexity of relations between feminism and religion.