Femenism

Question 1

What do feminists believe has happened to religion?

Answer 1

Its become male dominated because of the monotheism

Question 2

Armstrong’s belief?

Answer 2

People worshipped gods of nature who were associated with females
Polytheistic religions include female gods

Question 3

Evidence of patriarchy in orthodox Judaism?

Answer 3

‘Blessed art thou O lord our god that I was not born a slave. Blessed art thou O lord our God that I was not born a woman’

Question 4

Evidence of patriarchy in new testament?

Answer 4

‘Wives be subject to your husbands as to lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church’

Question 5

Feminist comparison of Mary and Eve?

Answer 5

Mary= pure virgin (no one can live up to this)
Eve= evil and wicked leading to the downfall of men

Question 6

How is Hinduism seen as patriarchal; Gomrich?

Answer 6

-Women are never free from male control e.g. father, husband and son
-Regarded as suspicious until she bares a child as her sexuality is not controlled
-Hind women’s main calling is to child bare and obtain a husband
-A goddess is seen as the spouse of a male god

Question 7

Patriarchal- within religious organisations sociologists?

Answer 7

Karen Armstrong and Woodhead

Question 8

Patriarchal- within religious organisations?

Answer 8

Male dominated even though women are highest participants such as Orthodox Jew and catholic women can’t be priests

Question 9

Patriarchal- within religious organisations Armstrong and Woodhead?

Answer 9

Exclusion of priesthood marginalises women
Woodhead adds on by saying t shows deep unease of emancipating women

Question 10

Patriarchal- within places of worship sociologists?

Answer 10

Jean Holm

Question 11

Patriarchal- within places of worship?

Answer 11

Seating women behind screens when men have free space
Cant preach
Be there when menstruating

Question 12

Patriarchal- within places of worship Jean Holm?

Answer 12

When women are menstruating they can’t hold the Quran this devalues them

Question 13

Patriarchal- Control over body sociologist?

Answer 13

Michael Fauclaut

Question 14

Patriarchal- Control over body MF?

Answer 14

-Control over diet e.g. when to eat, fasting or abstinence
-Relationships
-Dress e.g. hijabs or veils
-Family arrangements e.g. consummating a marriage bearing children and abortion

Question 15

Patriarchal- Family life?

Answer 15

Women’s role is to be a subservient home maker and care givers with no career socially controlling women

Question 16

Patriarchal- Family life examples?

Answer 16

Koran
Bible estephian 5 22-24
Judaism

Question 17

Patriarchal- Family life Koran?

Answer 17

‘Men are in charge, good women are obedient’

Question 18

Patriarchal- Family life Bible estephian 5 22-24?

Answer 18

‘Wives are subjects too there husbands for the husband is the head of the wife’

Question 19

Patriarchal- family life Judaism?

Answer 19

‘Bless are thou O’lord that I was not born a woman’

Question 20

Patriarchal- Within sacred texts?

Answer 20

-Stories reflecting antifemale stereotypes reinforcing perceptions of women
e.g eve failing humanity or Leah tricking Jacob into marrying her instead of her sister Kate

Question 21

Patriarchal- Within sacred texts sociologists?

Answer 21

Kaden

Question 22

Patriarchal- Within sacred texts Kaden?

Answer 22

Features men doing as written and women’s actions in texts are interpreted by men

Question 23

Patriarchal- Within religious laws and customs?

Answer 23

Ban on abortion and contraception’s
Dress codes
Numbers of husbands
Divorce
Decision making

Question 24

Patriarchal- Within religious laws and customs sociologists?

Answer 24

Woodhead

Question 25

Patriarchal- Within religious laws and customs Woodhead?

Answer 25

Inability to be priests show unease of emancipation of women

Question 26

Marxist feminist De Beauvoir belief?

Answer 26

Religion allows men to oppress women
Compensating for there 2nd class status giving them hope from their suffering on earth

Question 27

Difference feminist El Sadawi?

Answer 27

The monotheistic religion created patriarchy due to class system at the time during male orientation causing abuses of powers
e.g. Catholics saying women treat illnesses as they are witches reinforcing ideology that only male are doctors
-Its not religions fault its the way culture is perceived

Question 28

Charlotte Butlers study overview?

Answer 28

Looked at 2nd gen Asian Muslim women in Britain looking at there feelings on Islam
30 semi structured; interviews on men and women aged 18-30 from Bradford and Coventry
Looked at if it was culture or religion

Question 29

Charlotte Butler- Is Islam patriarchal yes?

Answer 29

Muslim women are the ones transmitting Islamic norms and values to next generation
Reputation of girls is perserved

Question 30

Charlotte Butler- Is Islam patriarchal no?

Answer 30

-Castrations and arranged marriage are man made cultures separate from religion
-Clothing up to women

Question 31

Jill Swale study?

Answer 31

Judaism had many attempts to modernise
Merlin stone saw the Torah as written by men creating biases against women e.g. eve made first sin so she’s morally weak

Question 32

Jill swale is it patriarchal yes?

Answer 32

-Not expect to attend religious events
-Fulfil domestic duties
-Men thank God for not being a women
-Men misinterpret the Torrah

Question 33

Jill swale is it patriarchal no?

Answer 33

Reform and liberal movements encouraging women to be Rabbis
Lack of life cycle ritual causing women to create own models or religion to meet their own needs e.g. childbirth, puberty and menopause