SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Australopithecus, Fertile Crescent, Paleolithic
Document Summary
Feminists emphasize two major points: the major religious traditions of today emerged, historically and culturally, within patriarchal societies. They are thus both complicit with and integral to the maintenance and reproduction of. All traditional religious variously establish an preach the inferiority of the female. All call for the necessary subjugation/subordination of women to men: as a consequence of patriarchal arrangements, women are systematically discriminated against in religious life. Female ritual functions are typically domestic rather than public. Females are often physically segregated (time and place) within sites of worship. Females are commonly required to undergo special purifications following menstruation and childbirth. They are typically excluded from official roles and authority positions or consigned to subordinate roles within a religious order or tradition. The primary or dominant deities are typically masculine. Sacred myths and scriptures commonly denigrate or blame females for humanity s troubles. A central point on patriarchy is historical: the mother goddess thesis: when god was a woman .
