Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral Leadership in Action conference (October 15-18). [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Gender'
Women & The Evolution of Culture (Think About This #74)
October 27th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 102 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Divine Feminine, Gender, Think About This
In the following excerpt from her groundbreaking article, “The Divine Feminine Unveiled,” EnlightenNext magazine senior editor Elizabeth Debold describes the challenging and sacred role that women need to play in the evolution of culture:
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Women, Courage & Dignity
June 21st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 12 Comments · Culture, Gender, News, Politics
I was just sitting down to write a memorial for Jacqueline Péry D’Alincourt (1919-2009), whose courage during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II was beyond measure, when I read Carter Phipp’s most recent blog post that contained a quote from a young Iranian woman on the eve of the June 20 protests against the election of [...]
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What Do Women Want? Again…
June 1st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 13 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Gender, Uncategorized
Sorry about using that tired question ”what do women want?” to start off this post. Freud asked it–likening women’s consicousness to a dark continent both unexplored and presumably unknowable–and every exasperated male writer and far too many marketers have used it since. But the question is popping up again. In a recent New York Times op-ed column entitled [...]
Tags:freedom·Freud·happiness·Ross Douthat·selling virginity·sexual freedom·women·women's liberation·women's movement
Divine Feminine Alert No. 1
May 16th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 5 Comments · Culture, Divine Feminine, Gender
I’ve decided to create an ongoing series of posts to challenge one of the most popular beliefs of our era: that women have a profoundly different value set than men, and that embracing these particularly feminine values will change the world. Men, and masculine thinking, have dominated the world and made a mess, so now women, and the feminine, [...]
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