Tell us what you think about the state of feminism today. But its form is different, as it should be.
Every movement changes over time.
For one young Catholic mother, Patti Faust, shown here with the writer, the feminist messages of the 60s and 70s fueled a strong reaction. There were two F-words around my household growing up. One is obvious, the other was feminism. My mom, a Roman Catholic, with four kids before she was 30, had no use for the movement, and dismissed it the same way she did hippies and psychologists in those mercurial early 1970s. Her resistance was probably borne of her 1950's coming of age, and as a recoil from the feminist attack that her role as wife and mother was both unenlightened and antiquated.