From a National Catholic Register review, written by Marge Fenelon, of Lorraine V. Murray's Confessions of
an Ex-Feminist (Ignatius Press, 2008):
Confessions of an Ex-Feminist should be de rigueur for college freshmen. Starkly honest and to the point, this book touches upon the nerve, albeit a raw one, that triggers the loss of faith in so many young adults.
In sharing her own faith journey, Lorraine Murray shows readers how easy it can be to lose one’s faith, especially in the amoral climate of a college campus. Even though Murray’s experiences span the ’70s and ’80s — before most of today’s young adults were born — the threats to purity, temptations to infidelity and cultural pressure to abandon godly values are as real and dangerous now as they were then. Murray artfully exhibits this in relating her own story.
The entire review is available to subscribers of the Register.
On Ignatius Insight:
• From Catholicism to Radical Feminism and Back | An Interview with Lorraine V. Murray
• Warning: This Is a Dangerous Book | Lorraine V. Murray | Introduction
to Confessions of an Ex-Feminist
This would certainly counter the "Women's Studies" crap that college students are spoonfed these days! Personally, I think feminism as it is today is dying -- the feminists just don't know it yet. I think that far from "liberating" women, they have enslaved a generation of women to the idea that a woman cannot be happy and fulfilled as a woman unless she jettisons everything feminine and adopts all the worst male characteristics (chauvenism, ruthless competitiveness, obsession with sex, workaholism, etc. -- as opposed to good characteristics like strength of character, protectiveness, spiritual leadership, etc.). I think many women who adopted this view are now realizing that they've been had. I bought into some of it when I was a young woman, but realized soon after a "born again" experience that there is something very strong, holy, and fulfilling about feminine characteristics. I am happy to be a stay-at-home mom, and yes, SUBMIT to my husband as he submits to Christ, and the feminists who make fun of me can go jump in a lake! :-)
Posted by: laura | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 05:58 PM
Well said, Laura.
Posted by: LJ | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Laura,
Thank you for your post! You have expressed it perfectly. I wish I had awakened earlier to the ugliness of the so-called feminist dream, which turned out to be a nightmare. I'm very honored now by the NCR review and hope that many people will read about what happened to me and countless other women as we fell prey to the treacherous lure of feminism.
Posted by: Lorraine V. Murray | Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 06:35 AM