One of the major considerations that second wave feminism contributed to the biblical feminists was an understanding of what they came to view as the influence of cultural patterns and attitudes in an unjust subordination of women. The feminists helped evangelical women identify prejudice against them as the result of a “patriarchal social system” rather than legal inequality, the focus of the earlier feminists. Groothuis asserts, “The most helpful insight of the modern (late twentieth century) feminism is that patriarchy—that is, culturally rather than legally instituted male domination of
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