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Born February 8, 1949; married Harville Hendrix; children: six, including Hunter and Leah.
EDUCATION:Southern Methodist University, B.A., M.L.A., M.A.; Union Theological Seminary (NY), graduated, Ph.D.
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Writer and therapist. Co-creator of Imago Relationship Theory; founder and president of The Sister Fund; cofounder of the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation, and the Women’s Funding Network.
AWARDS:Inductee, National Women’s Hall of Fame, 2001.
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Helen LaKelly Hunt is a writer and therapist. She and her husband, Harville, Hendrix, are the creators of a type of marriage therapy called Imago Relationship Theory. Hunt is also the sole founder of the Sister Fund, an organization created to empower women and girls. She is a cofounder of the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation, and the Women’s Funding Network. Hunt holds three degrees from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary.
Making Marriage Simple
Hunt and Hendrix have collaborated on books, including Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved, Receiving Love Workbook: A Unique Twelve-Week Course for Couples and Singles, and Making Marriage Simple: Ten Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want. In the latter volume, they expound on the principles of Imago Relationship Theory. They suggest that troubled marriages can be healed when the two people focus on truly hearing one another, banishing negativity, and approaching one another with gentleness. Hendrix and Hunt note that many people have been emotionally damaged during their childhoods, and they carry these wounds into their relationships. Partners should assist one another as they attempt to overcome their childhood wounds.
A contributor to Publishers Weekly offered a favorable assessment of Making Marriage Simple. The contributor described the book as “a workable manual for couples committed to doing a better job living a modern married life.”
And the Spirit Moved Them
Hunt has released books on feminism, including Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance. She is the sole author of the 2017 book, And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists. In this volume, Hunt focuses on women who participated in women-only antislavery conventions during the 1830s, including the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women. Prominent figures from those conventions included Mary Grew, Abby Kelly, Lucretia Mott, Grace Douglass, Sarah Douglass, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, Sarah Forten, and Lydia Maria Child. Hunt offers profiles of each of these women, some more in depth than others. She also compares how these women were treated with how male abolitionists were treated. Hunt includes information about her own involvement in women’s organizations.
In an interview with Senti Sojwal, contributor to the Feministing website, Hunt described the women she profiles in the book. She stated: “They really cared about human dignity very broadly. They also realized that regardless of the law, or the culture, they had a responsibility to be engaged. They organized around abolition, but also around women’s marginalization. They pushed back against the cult of domesticity and this idea that women don’t deserve to be societally engaged. They looked at how issues like race and class and gender intersected. I think their faith also inspired them to feel passion in fighting for rights and dignity for all kinds of people. They are incredible models for us today.” In the same interview with Sojwal, Hunt discussed her reasons for writing the book. She stated: “For me, it was about bringing these women out of the shadows of history. That’s really all I cared about it.”
Reviewing the book in Publishers Weekly, a writer suggested: “Unfortunately, factual inaccuracies … plague this lighthearted treatment of a well-known segment in the history of the women’s movement.” However, Glendy X. Mattalia, critic in Booklist, described And the Spirit Moved Them as a “well-researched, thoroughly accessible book.” Mattalia added: “This intriguing book sheds long-overdue light on Mott.” A Kirkus Reviews contributor remarked: “The faith-based argument is not always convincing, but the author’s call for renewed feminist action, based on ‘the spirit and ethic of love,’ makes for timely reading.”
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Booklist, April 1, 2017, Glendy X. Mattalia, review of And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists, p. 3.
Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2017, review of And the Spirit Moved Them.
Publishers Weekly, January 21, 2013, review of Making Marriage Simple: Ten Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want, p. 55; March 20, 2017, review of And the Spirit Moved Them, p. 66.
ONLINE
D Online, https://www.dmagazine.com/ (February 1, 2014), Michael J. Mooney, author interview.
Feministing, http://feministing.com/ (June 2, 2017), Senti Sojwal, author interview.
Harville and Helen, http://harvilleandhelen.com/ (November 20, 2017), author profile and joint website with husband.
Page Six, https://pagesix.com/ (September 22, 2015), Ian Mohr, article about author.
Women’s Media Center Website, https://www.womensmediacenter.com/ (November 20, 2017), author profile.
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Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph. D are partners in life and work. Their lives and work are integrated in their commitment to the transformation of couples and families and to the evolution of a relational culture that supports universal equality.
Harville and Helen believe that how we interact with each other in all our contexts—home, school, workplace, and places of worship—determines our emotional, social, physical and spiritual well-being as well as the well-being of society and culture. To that end, they have developed and promote a new way of talking, called SAFE CONVERSATIONS®, that facilitates connecting and the experience of joyful aliveness. 'Safety' is the source or code word for reality that precedes facilitating and connecting in the resulting joyful aliveness. It is the condition for the experience.
To assist the transformation of all relationships, Harville and Helen co-created IMAGO RELATIONSHIP THEORY and THERAPY which is applicable to couples, families, parents and professionals who seek to be more effective in their life and relationships.
To spread IMAGO to the mental health world as a therapeutic system and educational process, Harville and Helen co-founded IMAGO RELATIONSHIPS INTERNATIONAL, which trains and supports therapists around the world. To date, more than 2000 therapists in more than 35 countries have been trained.
Harville and Helen also co-created, with other relational therapists, scientists, artists and business professionals, a non-profit organization called RELATIONSHIPS FIRST. The organization contributes to the creation of a relational culture through the distribution of new insights from the relational sciences.
To demonstrate the impact of new relational insights on large populations, they co-initiated SAFE CONVERSATIONS® as a city-wide experiment to raise the joy index of a whole city – Dallas, Texas.
Harville and Helen have created a variety of resources in order to help couples, families, educators, and therapists strengthen relationship knowledge and skills. These resources include three New York Times best sellers (GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT, KEEPING THE LOVE YOU FIND, and GIVING THE LOVE THAT HEALS), their latest book MAKING MARRIAGE SIMPLE (2013), and six other books and manuals and out-of–the-box programs. Harville and Helen are currently working on the professional text for IMAGO THEORY and THERAPY as well as supporting research projects leading to evidence-based status.
Harville is a couple's therapist with more than 40 years' experience as an educator, clinical trainer and lecturer whose work has appeared on Oprah 17 times. He holds graduate degrees from Union Theological Seminary (NY) and the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University.
Helen – in addition to her partnership in the authorship of 10 books on relationships and her co-creation and distribution of IMAGO – holds earned and honorary degrees from Union Theological Seminary (NY) and Southern Methodist University. The sole author of FAITH AND FEMINISM, she was installed in the Women's Hall of Fame for her leadership in the global women's movement.
Helen and Harville have been married for more than 30 years, have six children and six grandchildren, and reside in Dallas, Texas.
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Helen LaKelly Hunt (born 1949) is a daughter of H. L. Hunt. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, where she graduated from the Hockaday School and Southern Methodist University. She also has a master's degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in church history.[1]
She is founder and president of The Sister Fund, which describes itself as "a private women's fund dedicated to the social, political, economic, and spiritual empowerment of women and girls."
Hunt currently lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband, Harville Hendrix, a self-help author.
Hunt was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, which cited her as a "[c]reative philanthropist who has used her own resources and others to create women's funding institutions." [1]
Helen LaKelly Hunt along with her husband developed Imago Relationship Therapy. Their son, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, is the vocalist of the American black metal band Liturgy and their daughter, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, is an Occupy movement activist.[2]
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Helen LaKelly Hunt is one of a small army of women who helped to seed the women’s funding movement. She cofounded The Dallas Women’s Foundation, The New York Women’s Foundation, and The Women’s Funding Network. She is author of Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance & And The Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of the First Feminists (Spring 2017). She is the founder and president of The Sister Fund, a private foundation that focuses on faith, feminism and relationship as all three, intrinsic to women’s wholeness. Helen also helped to catalyze, with her sister Ambassador Swanee Hunt, Women Moving Millions, a global network of donors that have made unprecedented gifts of $1 million or more for the advancement of women and girls. Helen was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001.
In addition, she has co-authored several books with her partner, Harville Hendrix, on their development of Imago Relationship Therapy. They are now working to disseminate an educational process called Safe Conversations starting with the city of Dallas. This new relational technology can help to actualize something feminists have long asserted must come to pass, the need for a new value system – shifting away from competition to collaboration, ‘power-over’, to ‘power-with’ – in order to create a more relational culture.
Helen holds a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, as well as three degrees from Southern Methodist University: a B.A. in Secondary Education, an M.L.A. in Liberal Arts, and an M.A. in Counseling. She also holds an honorary Ph.D. from the Chicago Theological Seminary. Helen and Harville now live in Dallas, Texas.
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Gail and Jim are looking into each other’s eyes, taking deep breaths. They’re nervous, sitting face to face, with a therapist next to them. The therapist looks at Gail.
“Share something you appreciate about Jim,” he says in the deep, soothing tones of a veteran psychotherapist.
There’s a tense pause as she breaks eye contact with her husband to think.
“Jim,” she finally says, “I appreciate how you’ve supported me, and how you’ve been faithful to me for 37 years.”
The therapist turns to Jim. The husband clears his throat.
“If I got that,” Jim says with the same stilted earnestness, “you said you’re grateful that I’ve supported you and been loyal for 37 years.”
Gail shakes her head. “That’s not exactly what I said.”
Then she repeats what she appreciates, stressing the word faithful this time. And again, as Jim tries to mirror his wife, he uses the word loyal instead. It’s getting awkward. She’s not happy.
The crowd seated around the couple can’t help but snicker. It’s a Friday evening, and there are about 100 couples here. We’re in a high school cafeteria in West Dallas as part of a free, two-day relationship counseling workshop put on by the Oprah-endorsed self-help author-cum-couples therapist Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt. Harville is guiding Gail and Jim through a dialogue exercise, reassuring them as they struggle to connect.
Helen is in her early 60s; Harville his late 70s. He’s wearing a striped shirt tucked into pleated slacks. With his dark beard and hairline, he looks like he belongs on a book jacket, donning tweed. She’s wearing glasses and a purple cardigan, and has the demeanor of a kind librarian. They’re both warm, enthusiastic—bordering on cloying.
Before you roll your eyes, you should know: this isn’t about selling books or products or programs. It isn’t about pushing religion. It certainly isn’t about notoriety or money. Harville has been on The Oprah Winfrey Show 19 times. And Helen is the daughter of H.L. Hunt, the richest man in the world when he died. In fact, Harville and Helen have been counseling parents at some of the poorest schools in Dallas, the couples least likely to seek therapy on their own. The vast majority of people in the cafeteria tonight speak little to no English and are wearing headsets with live translations into Spanish. A few of the people here can’t read in any language.
Their goal is nothing short of world peace. As Harville told me before the workshop, “We believe that if we can reach enough people, we can end divorce, end domestic violence, end public crime, and reduce medical bills.”
This is part of an expansive, ambitious project Harville and Helen have been working on for nearly five years. They bill themselves as social revolutionaries, bringing “relationship science”—the tools and technologies of couples therapy—to the masses. Their goal is nothing short of world peace. As Harville told me before the workshop, “We believe that if we can reach enough people, we can end divorce, end domestic violence, end public crime, and reduce medical bills.” He has studies showing that healthier families can have a positive effect on all of these things, and he adds: “You can extrapolate that if we had relationship-wellness talk globally, we could end war, but you obviously can’t study that.”
In 2010, Harville and Helen called together relationship experts from across the country: theorists, writers, clinicians, and specialists who vie for the same keynote spots every year and have competing theories on how to help couples. “We wanted to check our egos and logos at the door and come together to educate the public,” Helen says.
They decided to target a single city, “to raise the joy index” of one major metropolitan area. They picked Dallas because a study at the time showed that it had the ninth-highest divorce rate in the country, and because Harville and Helen both have history here. They’ve been given support from city officials and the Dallas Independent School District to reach parents specifically. (Children of healthy families tend to do better in school, too, Harville points out.) They’re joining with dozens of local mental-health professionals and counseling organizations, and planning massive workshops, open to any couple willing to put in the time. They want to teach basic communication models—helping partners have “safe conversations”—with the belief that better communication will lead to healthier relationships, that healthier relationships will breed healthier children, and that healthier children will bring about a better world.
Harville and Helen invited my fiancée and me to participate in one of the first of these public workshops, and to write about it in advance of a giant event they’re planning for Valentine’s Day. I was intrigued enough by their backgrounds and lofty goals—and Tara, my fiancée, is supportive enough—to at least check it out. And that’s how we ended up watching Gail and Jim, a white, minivan-driving couple married 37 years, squirm and discuss their relationship in a room full of strangers.
Soon it’s clear Gail and Jim aren’t paying attention to the other couples. They’re fixed on each other. Gail says she appreciates that Jim makes her feel safe. She says it reminds her of the feeling she got when she was with her mother as a child. She says she didn’t feel safe with her father. She didn’t feel safe at the beginning of her relationship with Jim either.
“I’m just glad I feel safe with you now,” she says, her voice cracking. “I’m glad we made it. I’m glad we stayed together.”
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Tara and I have a good relationship. She’s 29; I’m 32. We met when I was in grad school at UNT. I was her TA. We’ve lived together for six years, been engaged for two. We have a comfortable life: good families, nice friends, a house we like, an adorable greyhound, and some delightful chickens in the backyard. She’s a book editor and a freelance writer—she will read and approve of this before you see it—and we both work from home. Occasionally we drive each other to a level of insanity I thought existed only in Victorian novels, but when I travel for work, the hardest part is being away from her.
Between the two of us, we have two degrees in English and two in journalism, so we didn’t think communication was a problem. And though Tara agreed to come with me without much convincing, as the workshop night got closer, she talked about it with skepticism and dread. “What exactly is this thing again?” she asked more than once. “Feelings,” she joked, “sounds a lot like weakness.” (I should also point out that sometimes Tara has to press a wet washcloth to her eyes before bed because an ophthalmologist told her she has a disease that literally prevents her from producing enough tears.)
When we show up to the high school that night, there are signs directing couples with children and couples without children in different directions. Free child care is part of the workshop, and while the parents are learning how to have respectful, considerate conversations in the cafeteria, the children are in other parts of the school going through a similar workshop geared to kids.
Inside the cafeteria, there are large screens set up in front of the painted, cinderblock walls and hundreds of plastic school chairs lined up in concentric rings. We take our seats near the back. There’s Coke, bottled water, and dozens of pizzas from Domino’s. Each of us is supposed to fill out a survey asking us to rank things like how much we love our partners and how often we do things together. Each couple is given a pair of workbooks. There aren’t any in English, so Tara and I flip through ours looking at the pictures, understanding only a few words on each page.
We notice the interesting mix of people, what seems like a broad range of ages and occupations. The men wear polos, hooded sweatshirts, business slacks, wing tips, tennis shoes, and flip-flops. There are women in suits and pumps, in jeans and boots, in sweatpants and sneakers. At least one woman, we agree, is wearing conspicuously out-of-place nightclub attire. Everyone, though, is here to better their relationship.
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Helen LaKelly Hunt — whose Texas-oil-baron dad was said to be the inspiration for JR Ewing on “Dallas” — told a roomful of 1-percenters at Le Cirque, “High-net-worth women are despised.”
Speaking on a philanthropy panel at the NY Women’s Foundation Luncheon, Hunt quipped: “People think all we do is shop and go to country clubs . . . I wanted that to change.”
Hunt recalled telling Gloria Steinem the “high-net-worth women” line, which a wealthy pal had come up with — to which Steinem replied, “But high-net-worth men are feared.” Hunt advised a crowd including Francine LeFrak, Margo Catsimatidis, Sharon Bush and Jean Shafiroff on charity, “Spend all the money in your estate.”
She’s not the only outspoken family member. Her Occupy Wall Street activist daughter Leah has been dubbed “Occupy’s heiress.” Son Hunter, the singer in Brooklyn metal band Liturgy, writes about “meaninglessness, disaster, and apocalypse,” says rock site Pitchfork.
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QUOTED: "They really cared about human dignity very broadly. They also realized that regardless of the law, or the culture, they had a responsibility to be engaged. They organized around abolition, but also around women’s marginalization. They pushed back against the cult of domesticity and this idea that women don’t deserve to be societally engaged. They looked at how issues like race and class and gender intersected. I think their faith also inspired them to feel passion in fighting for rights and dignity for all kinds of people. They are incredible models for us today."
"For me, it was about bringing these women out of the shadows of history. That’s really all I cared about it."
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BY SENTI SOJWAL • @SENTI_NARWHAL • 5 MONTHS AGO
THE FEMINISTING FIVE: HELEN LAKELLY HUNT
Longtime women’s activist Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, has been passionate about women’s advocacy for more than eighteen years.Founder and president of the Sister Fund, a private women’s fund dedicated to women’s empowerment, Helen has helped to found a number of other women’s institutions including the Dallas Women’s Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation, and the Women’s Funding Networking, and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Helen is also the co-founder of Imago Relationships International and with her husband, Harville Hendrix, developed Imago Relationship Therapy and the concept of “conscious partnership”. She is also the sole author of Faith and Feminism: A Holy Alliance, about the relationship between spiritual conviction and social action.
Helen LaKelly Hunt’s latest book, And The Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America’s First Feminists, out last month from The Feminist Press, features a forward from Cornel West and details the true story of an interracial group of abolitionist women who joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention, a decade before Seneca Falls.
For this week’s Feministing Five, I had the pleasure of chatting with Helen about what modern day activists can learn from America’s first feminists, how we can strive to make our movements intersectional, and how history can move us to raise our voices even louder.
Senti Sojwal: Your book is about the unknown history of the abolitionist feminist movement built in the 1830s, years before the Seneca Falls Convention. I was so struck by how inclusive the movement was — so many women across racial and socioeconomic lines bound together for a cause they believed in. What can our current feminist movement learn about intersectionality from the feminist political organizers you wrote about?
Helen LaKelly Hunt: They really cared about human dignity very broadly. They also realized that regardless of the law, or the culture, they had a responsibility to be engaged. They organized around abolition, but also around women’s marginalization. They pushed back against the cult of domesticity and this idea that women don’t deserve to be societally engaged. They looked at how issues like race and class and gender intersected. I think their faith also inspired them to feel passion in fighting for rights and dignity for all kinds of people. They are incredible models for us today.
Senti Sojwal: I was so struck by the similarities of how politically aware and passionate women were treated back in the 1800s and also now. Both then and now, women who are fierce activists are berated as undignified, unfeminine, and overstepping boundaries. Did you have this experience, doing your research, of being sometimes struck at how little things have changed? What was that like?
The book cover of And the Spirit Moved Me Helen LaKelly Hunt: I discovered this story around seventeen years ago when I was doing my dissertation work. Only about four years ago did I look into publishing it. I was so honored that the Feminist Press wanted to bring these stories out of the dark. For me, it was about bringing these women out of the shadows of history. That’s really all I cared about it. I care about writing good books, but I don’t care how many people buy them. The right people will buy and read them. However, after the election, and seeing how women were treated and spoken about, even from other women, which did happen to these abolitionist feminists, things changed for me. This idea that women could have opinions and be loud and stand up for themselves and each other was so scrutinized and criticized back then, and that’s exactly what I saw happening during the election. I was horrified. There are incredible women who work so hard to lift up a vision of equality, justice, economic freedom, fair pay, and well, you can just see the way they’re treated and ridiculed. I really feel differently about the book now. These women in the book did not let attempts to silence them go unchallenged. They fought back. They fought confrontation with confrontation. I want their words to be an inspiration, for people to see the need to double up on our efforts to get their voices out in the world today.
Senti Sojwal: In the book, you explore the relationship between faith and feminism for nineteenth century feminist activists, who saw their progressive values and advocacy as part of God’s work. You argue that religion calls on feminists to be intersectional, and that today’s feminism can draw on the power of faith while pulling religion away from patriarchal practices. Can you speak more about that and what it means for you personally?
Helen LaKelly Hunt: At the Beijing Conference of UN Women in the 1990s, I decided to go around and do a survey about faith and feminism. I asked women at the conference to consider two groups of women: one doing economic justice work through a house of worship, be it a mosque or a synagogue, and another group of women doing economic justice work unrelated to a house of worship. The question was, do these women work in partnership, are they on parallel tracks, or do they work against each other? None of the women that I interviewed said that these two groups could work in partnership. There was a real distrust between the morals and values of these two sets of women: secular feminists and those who were faith-identified. The feminism of religious women isn’t taken seriously. Yet these religious women also often do care deeply about the marginalized, about economic justice, but they felt like non-religious feminists were dangerous to work with. Here I am stuck in the middle because my faith has a lot of meaning to me, and while there are things I take issue with that happen in houses of worship and religious communities, I still find that the essence of the rules of most religions are quite revolutionary. Let’s turn this culture upside down. Scripture tells us that everyone deserves to live with dignity. That’s what feminists want as well. I was so distraught by this division I saw between faith and feminism, so that’s why I wrote the book. Calling on women to get to know each other and see if they can find equal ground is so important. Today’s feminists are much more inclusive, and I find that really inspiring.
Senti Sojwal: What was the greatest joy of unearthing this history and writing this book?
Helen LaKelly Hunt: The greatest joy was reading these women’s writing. They spoke in a way that was so much greater than anything I’ve ever heard. They were so courageous. Saying, “standing up for our sisters in the South…this is something we are willing to die for.” They were really willing to put their lives on the line for what they believed in. The joy was getting to know these women’s souls, bearing witness to their power. What thrills me is the idea of unleashing their voices and hoping that it will unleash in readers more voice and passion.
Senti Sojwal: What is the most important lesson you hope readers take away from this book?
Helen LaKelly Hunt: I think the most important lesson is that within each one of us, no matter our background or skin color or economic situation, we have a mighty calling to help turn the world upside down. The people at the top of the world should not be the loudest, the pushiest, the ones with the most money, the ones with skewed values. Gloria Steinem says it’s all about being linked, not ranked. I hope the readers understand that our power is in being linked, not ranked. Our power is embracing one another, working together in the service of everyone’s freedom.
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QUOTED: "well-researched, thoroughly accessible book."
"This intriguing book sheds long-overdue light on Mott."
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Glendy X. Mattalia
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May 2017. 280p. Feminist, paper, $18.95 (9781558614291). 306.
In the pages of Hunt's new book, even informed students of the feminist movement might be surprised to discover
trailblazer Lucretia Mott. Hunt posits that the feminist movement actually began not with Gloria Steinern in the 1960s
or the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 but at the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in New York
City in 1837. A passionate group of interracial abolitionist women intent on ending slavery, Mott and her peers were
treated unequally among the male abolitionists with whom they worked side by side and thus set about "emancipating"
themselves and forming their own organization. In a well-researched, thoroughly accessible book, Hunt takes us on a
journey through Mott's and the author's own lives and feminist evolutions. Featuring historical photographs and
documents, this intriguing book sheds long-overdue light on Mott and the other brave women who organized alongside
her.--Glendy X. Mattalia
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QUOTED: "Unfortunately, factual inaccuracies ... plague this lighthearted treatment of a well-known segment in the history of the women's movement."
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264.12 (Mar. 20, 2017): p66.
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Helen LaKelly Hunt. Feminist Press, $18.95
trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-55861-429-1
Philanthropist and therapist Hunt (Faith and Feminism) addresses elements of early feminism, primarily its interracial
and religious aspects, which she asserts were "lost in the [20th] century." "The origin of modern feminism is its
Christian bedrock" is a central theme in the book, as Hunt revisits all-women antislavery conventions held in America
in the late 1830s. Notable--but not necessarily forgotten--figures appear (generally referred to by their first names),
among them Lydia Maria Child, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Lucretia Mott, and the lesser-known Mary Grew and
Abby Kelly. Hunt is attentive to the involvement of black women, particularly Grace and Sarah Douglass and Sarah
Forten. The book is framed by accounts of Hunt's personal history and involvement with women's organizations.
Unfortunately, factual inaccuracies (e.g., she names Frederick Douglass as one of the founders of the American AntiSlavery
Society in 1833) and unsubstantiated claims (she writes that a group of organizers "took to heart the words
written decades earlier by Phillis Wheatley" but does not provide evidence of them having ever read Wheatley's work)
plague this lighthearted treatment of a well-known segment in the history of the women's movement. (May)
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"And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists." Publishers Weekly, 20 Mar.
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QUOTED: "The faith-based argument is not always convincing, but the author's call for renewed feminist action, based on "the spirit and ethic of love," makes for timely reading."
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MOVED THEM
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1-55861-429-1
The story of the abolitionists of the early to mid-19th century who set the stage for women's campaign for equality and
the vote.Growing up in a wealthy family in which her father was "the dictator of the house," Hunt (Faith and Feminism:
A Holy Alliance, 2004, etc.) felt an immediate sense of kinship with 19th-century feminist abolitionists who railed
against patriarchal culture. She was "captivated," she writes, "by these women who had declared their right to shout out
against slavery and claim their own authority." The author sees these reformers as the true founders of American
feminism, years before the iconic Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Hunt has two aims in her revisionist history: to
celebrate women such as Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Mary Grew, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Sarah
Douglass, and Catharine Beecher, who have been largely overshadowed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony; and, equally as important, to highlight the women's religious faith. Early feminists, she writes, viewed
abolition as "a sacred mission and religious vocation." They felt "armed by God," as they denounced church hierarchy
and pro-slavery clerics. The Southern church, Hunt discovered, "gave religious cover to slavery, citing carefully chosen
Bible verses and propagating the notion that the slaves were heathens." Feminist abolitionists countered with their own
reading of Scripture, emphasizing God's love and compassion. Although they shared faith, not all feminists saw blacks
as equals; agreed that black men should be enfranchised; nor considered women to be men's equals. Defiant as they
were against slavery, many women believed that only white men should wield political power, with women's "proper
sphere" relegated to the home. These differences sowed seeds of dissension among various factions of abolitionists.
Regretting the absence of "Christian zeal" among contemporary feminists, Hunt urges a union between secular and
faith-based feminism, inclusive of all religions. The faith-based argument is not always convincing, but the author's call
for renewed feminist action, based on "the spirit and ethic of love," makes for timely reading.
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QUOTED: "a workable manual for couples committed to doing a better job living a modern married life."
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Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for
Changing the Relationship You Have into the
One You Want
Publishers Weekly.
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Making Marriage Simple: 10 Truths for Changing the Relationship You Have into the One You Want Harville Hendrix
and Helen LaKelly Hunt. Harmony, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7704-3712-1
Odd couple Hendrix and Hunt, whose groundbreaking Getting the Love You Want is wildly popular with marriage
counselors everywhere, bring their Imago Relationship Therapy method and personal experiences to this easy-tounderstand
handbook for creating and maintaining a "Partnership Marriage." Lightened by a cartoon couple's
relationship conversations and whimsical descriptions of personality types (e.g., the Turtle and the Hailstorm), the book
advocates a relationship in which each member helps the other recapitulate and recover from the emotional wounds of
childhood. The overall message--built on an enthusiastic notion of marriage as the core institution of society and
following a structure of specific communication exercises--is one that divorce-happy America may not be ready to
hear: "the best way to heal a relationship is not to repair the two people, but the Space between them." Hendrix and
Hunt's focus on gentleness, reflective listening, and removing negativity forms a decidedly common-sense approach to
marriage. Base this in a clear and methodical approach, and you've got a workable manual for couples committed to
doing a better job living a modern married life--for their own sake and their partner's. Agent: Douglas Abrams, Idea
Architects. (Mar. 12)
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