feminism rethought

I have been reading Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot. It has helped me to understand something, at least that I am not in an unusual situation of trying to understand how to love God and what to do with my love of boys. I have begun to reconsider the possibility that there is an order to relationships, that what the bible says about gender is not merely to be taken as cultural. Though I was unable to complete my paper on free will, I at least got a wee glimpse into the question of what is freedom? I am feeling like boundaries are very good and necessary things. However, since the fall we war against these, trying to surpass our finiteness and make our own reality. But in the end we must realize that giving ourselves definitions is an empty pursuit which ends in chaos and disappointment. We are images: our fundamental nature is not to be a self creating identity, but to take our identity from an outside source.

The language in sociology betrays a bias. For example, In my sociology book it states

...pluralization means that individuals no longer have strongly affirmed, pre-determined identities..”

It then goes on to say how they are given the freedom to create through actions etc. their identities. If one phrases it a bit differently, however, it begins to have to form a question of what is really good. “Stereo types”, for example, while a negative word or even concept, yet give the boundaries to our behavior. The question is whether this is a good thing or not. Looking at a different way, is it good for us to have boundaries of our identify, or are we really supposed to create who we are? I highly doubt the later.