Advertisers like to tell you that they have a solution to your problem, but sometimes they

first have to convince you that you have a problem. Decades ago, feminists started doing the same thing.

Here's Mary Cassian.

They saw that women had a problem, but that women themselves did not recognize how poor their condition really was.

So they had to convince the American women that you've got a problem you don't know you have.

That's right. They wanted to convince the women that their source, those yearnings and the longings that every woman feels.

The longings within women's heart really was because of this oppression, because of this patriarchy,

because the rule of men, rule of the father, and that women need to fight against that and overcome that in order to feel fulfilled.

It's Tuesday, September 13th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

Here's Nancy.

I was born in 1958, just really at the outset of the modern-day feminist movement.

So I'm a little young to remember some of the origins and how that movement came about.

It was really taking place while I was a little girl.

Our guest this week is Mary Cassian, who has done a lot of study on how this movement came about and is helping us to understand

some of its development.

Mary, welcome back to revive our hearts.

Thanks, Nancy.

Good to be here.

Mary is a wife.

She's a mom of three teenage sons, and her background is actually in rehab medicine,

so she has a professional background.

But as a young woman, she became interested in

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