By Meghan Tschanz
This book will break you and remake you in the area of gender equality, if you let it!
I appreciated Meghan’s personal experience as a missionary to various countries, trying to help change and expose issues of sex slavery and women’s rights globally. She shared heart breaking stories of women who have been raped, murdered, sold, enslaved, impoverished, abused and treated as less than equal.
But this was more than a memoir of overseas missions and work in the States. Meghan delved into statistics, she looked at purity culture, she tore down patriarchy piece by piece with full conviction of what she knows to be true, and biblical, and healthy.
Meghan talked about what equal-partnership marriages can look like and she even busted myths about virginity and hymens! Myths I believed to be true until this year–and I’m almost 40years old!! There is no significant difference between the hymens of girls who have not had sex, those who have had sex, and even those who’ve given birth to babies! There is no physical proof of this construct we call “virginity.”
This book is incredibly moving and convicting. Meghan asked the question that I have been asking for years: if so many women are sexually abused, how many men are sexually abusive? And I have long suspected that too many of our own uncles, cousins, brothers, fathers and friends don’t recognize certain things they do that are sexually abusive. They need to be re-educated about purity-rape culture and patriarchy which feed the lies that perpetuate sexual abuse and trauma! Meghan’s book is a great place to start for such a mind-makeover and cultural shift!
Meghan encouraged women to stand up and use their voices. I was personally uplifted by this, and I am following through.
Thank you, Meghan, for this passionate work of feminist art!