Feminist

Question 1

What do feminist believe religion is

Answer 1

A conservative force

Question 2

How does religion implant the patriarchy

Answer 2

Control over bodies eg contraception, abortion
More priests are make
Worshipping a male god

Question 3

What is a monotheist religion

Answer 3

Only one god
Usually male

Question 4

What does religion see women as

Answer 4

Sacred
They are not acknowledged to have power or influence

Question 5

What is a quote that is evidence of the patriarchy

Answer 5

Wives be subject to your husbands

Question 6

Who was a woman that was evidence of the patriarchy and why

Answer 6

Mary
Virgin = unobtainable, pure
Frowned upon when she was pregnant

Question 7

How do religious laws show patriarchy

Answer 7

Women have fewer rights eg decision making
Cultural norms = unequal treatment + genital mutilation
Regulate women’s domestic reproductive role
Abortion rights

Question 8

How do religious organisations enforce patriarchy

Answer 8

Karen Armstrong
See seclusion from priesthood as evidence of marginalisation
Judaism = forbid women to become priests
All is make dominated

Question 9

How do places of worship enforce patriarchy

Answer 9

Segregate sexes, women at the back men in the middle
Taboos rehearsing menstruation, childbirth prevent participation eg Islam, menstruating women can’t touch the Quran
How they dress
Baring children and abortion, family arrangements

Question 10

What type of feminist was de Beauvoir

Answer 10

Marxist feminist

Question 11

What did de beauvoir say

Answer 11

Agreed with Marx but for women
Religion gives women false belief that they will be compensated for suffering in heaven

Question 12

What type of feminist was El Sadawi

Answer 12

Difference feminist

Question 13

What is the problem in religion

Answer 13

Patriarchal domination of religion

Question 14

What is Patriarchal domination of religion

Answer 14

Focuses on female genital mutilation
Men have interpreted something to lead them to do this practice in religion

Question 15

What did Charlotte Butler say about Islam

Answer 15

Muslim women are oppressed and isolated
1/2 of sample believed that customs in marriage, caste segregation were aspects of culture

Question 16

What did Jill swale say about Judaism

Answer 16

Girls not allowed to study toran and not allowed to wear prayer shawls
Toran is male stream and interpreted by men
Men pray daily thanking god they aren’t women
Jewish feminists have now improved Patriarchy, now ceremonies are created around females

Question 17

What are criticisms of feminism

Answer 17

Women use church based activities to gain support, not subordination
Many religions (pentecostalists) claim men should respect women, women can use religion for empowerment
Sikh speak out against gender discrimination, encourage women to have equal participation in the faith
Most concerts to Islam are women

Question 18

What is Rosemary Radford Ruether

Answer 18

Womens body and blood
Religions have treated women’s body as impure and polluted
Swedish Christian’s = women should not be priests as women’s body’s are impure, the presence of a woman at the alter would pollute sacred rites