Feminist TOR

Question 1

Holm

Answer 1

Inequality in the major 6 religions.

Religion controls women by controlling sexuality to maintain monogamy

Women polluted by reproductive cycles and relegated to the home
E.g women are not active in religious ritual

Question 2

Abbott and Wallace

Answer 2

Looked at rise of witchcraft in c14th

Women were tried and killed as witches in local village. Occurred at the same time of the emergence of the medical profession

Question 3

De Beauvoir

Answer 3

The second sex

Religion offers women passive role models (Virgin Mary) and suggests compensation for suffering in the next life

Religion originally polytheistic. Worship of male and female dieties. Invasion of aggressive tribes lead to female diety worship dying out

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

Kaur-singh: Sikhism promotes gender equality

Wright: reformed Judaism, women rabbis, no segregation in the synagogue