Distorted Images: Misunderstandings Between Men and Women

by Anne Borrowdale

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664252427
• ISBN13: 9780664252427
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 152 Pages

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Distorted Images

Distorted images of women are expressed not only in everyday stereotyping, discrimination, and harassment, but also in pornography, domestic abuse, and other forms of sexual violence. Anne Borrowdale examines how Christian teaching has reinforced these problems. She studies how women are often falsely idealized as well as belittled, and how men, too, are harmed by their "distorted images" as either superhuman gods or uncontrollable monsters. In Distorted Images, the author argues that only when the sexes cease to deal in these distortions can the evils of sexual exploitation, assault, and even murder resulting from sex-based hatred - all things that threaten women daily simply because they are women - be overcome. This book is essential reading for all women and men concerned with these problems and with how Christian attitudes can help attempts to solve them. --- from book's back cover