RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Amina Wadud, Quran, Womanism
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Authority of experience a man cannot force a woman to read a passage from the bible. 439: listening to self in reading (authority of experience) . Listening to herself it doesn"t have to mean what it says it means. 440 it doesn"t have to mean that adam was created first a non gendered earth creature could have been the first brought the woman to man. Look at how she argues certain points. If you do this then you have to read them all as masculine. 3) there is no linguistic marker what is the thing in the text which tells you how to read it. The linguistic marker is women being in the middle good argument but it doesn"t work (what she says) pokes holes in her own argument to make it stronger. Heteronormative bias which was typical of feminism in this time in text. 441-2: but at the end of the chapter, ha- adam must be read generically .
