Feminism Goes Back to the Fall: Three Waves of Disordered Desire

ABSTRACT: For all their differences, the three waves of feminism share a common rejection of God’s design for men and women as outlined in Genesis 1–2. The main voices of the feminist movement, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Judith Butler, have opposed not only sinful male domination but also all ordered relationships of authority and submission between men and women. Feminism, then, is the philosophical and social actualization of Genesis 3:16 — “your desire shall be for your husband” — in our