Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Anti-scapegoating work remains to be done It is tempting to look back over the history of scapegoating women and breathe a sigh of relief: “Whew! It is a good thing we don’t live in those archaic…
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Women have always been sexual scapegoats for society It may not seem obvious to all who read this passage that the woman saved from stoning is, in fact, a scapegoat. One could read it as simply another attempt…
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Women as Scapegoats Society continues to separate women out as scapegoats by consigning them to gender-role stereotypes - the virgin, the shrew, the wife, the widow, the whore, the witch, and many more.…
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw It was easy to abandon the path that Jesus set out for them Christ-followers today might be at a loss to explain how the church could have even participated in, much less led, the destructive scapegoating of women in the past. Questions abound;…
