You've come a long way baby...

[dickens]

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is offering a BA in Humanities with a concentration in Homemaking. The program is only open to women.

The stated goal is to enforce 'biblical gender roles'.

http://www.star-telegram.com/448/story/198840.html

Augh. I don't know where to begin.

They don't even dignify the program by using "Home Economics", which has it's own baggage but a respectable pedigree.

If I had time to leaf through my 'Women, Gender and Science' texts I would find the name of the woman who started the first Home Economics program (which included sciencse like biology and chemistry and their practical applications) - wikipedia has failed me.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I wondered where I could go to learn how to pound a tent peg through a man's skull, and now I know!

Although it turns out that not everybody's view of "biblical gender roles" has the same focus as mine....

[the-overqual.livejournal.com]

Damn, beat me to the Holfernes/Judith references. Umm, what about the sexyifed stuff from Song of Solomon, do they teach that too?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You can always go for the Jael/decapitation reference to cap Judith/Holofernes stuff.