SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS March 2, 1998 Issue

Miss, Mrs., or Ms.—a question of identity

By Marilyn C. Jones

"I realized I needed to look more deeply into the assumption I was making about myself and others—that sexism could exist between God's ideas."

As a graduate student in English, I studied many theories of literature. Especially important to me was what I was learning about the role of women in history. The more I studied, the more I began to believe that historically women have been oppressed, and that this oppression still exists.

As a result of what I considered my new "awakening," I began to grow increasingly resentful that the world provided fewer opportunities to me than to my brother. I felt constantly on guard, seeing myself as caught in an unfair, universal system of discrimination. Eventually, I came to challenge many of the beliefs that my society taught, including the notion of a God-controlled universe.

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