Several decades ago, feminists started making big promises.

But according to Mary Cassian, feminism hasn't delivered.

There's more frustration, more dissatisfaction,

because the dream promised fulfillment and satisfaction for women, but it hasn't delivered.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Monday, September 12th.

Here's Nancy.

I have a lot of books recommended to me, and I love to read.

But sometimes a book comes across your path that really makes a significant difference in the way that you think.

After you read that book, you're just not the same anymore.

One such book came across my path several years ago, a book called The Feminist Mistake.

It was recommended to me by a friend, and I began to read this book, and as I did, I found that my eyes were open to some things that I had never been aware of before.

I found this book making a profound influence in my own understanding of what it means to be a woman and in my understanding of how we came to view womanhood in the way that it's commonly viewed today.

The book is by Mary Cassian, who since that time has become a friend, and I'm so glad that Mary is with us today to talk about how this

thing called feminism came to be. Mary, thanks for being with us and revive our hearts. It's so good

to be with you again. I'm glad to be here, Nancy. I love your spirit. I love your heart, and I've gotten to

know you as a woman of God. And I'm so thankful that you have written on this subject. You're

the author of a number of books. And your real heart is just to help women have a more personal,

intimate relationship with God. But several years ago, when you were still in your early 20s,

you became aware that there was a development in the last half century that had influenced all of us as women.

It's something that we know today as feminism.

Help us understand where did this come from, how did it get started, and how did we end up having the view of womanhood that we do today?

Well, the development of feminism is really interesting because it follows a very

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