RLG101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Luce Irigaray, Grace Jantzen, Judith Butler
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Gender: despite decades of debate about feminist (and post-feminist) theory and practice, the study of religion, culture, and gender is still relatively new" and innovative". Some feminists are failed to be acknowledged the male perspective, and men"s experiences are the central and most important point of reference (androcentricism) Having more male toilets than females, education and careers that focus on men"s working patterns. Sex, gender, and sexuality: can"t assume that what goes for men is always the same as for women. Elisabeth schu ssler fiorenza (1984) has argued that any study of religion should be based on a. The distinction is made by two elements of differences: between sex and gender. Psychoanalytic theory suggests that persons are not ready made souls inserted in bodies by god. The symbolic not only includes language and culture, but also religion, which. Irigaray describes as linchpin of the western symbolic (jantzen 1998: 12) Women symbolic is achieved by transforming religion rather than rejecting it.
