Religion is not the cause of Patriarchal oppression. However religion legitimaties that oppression.
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Abbott and Wallace
Traditional healers persecuted becuase of threat to male domination of medicine.
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Mary Daly
Religious images, teaching, exclusion from the church hierarchy, oppression and deception.
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Watson
Veiling allows women to cope with male oppression. Reduces possibility of sexual harassment, prevents women being judged on basis of looks.
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Britain's first women bishop
Jana Jeruma-Grinberga, Lutheran Church
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Britain's first women bishop
Libby Lane, Church of England
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Simone de Beauvoir
Religion is exploitative and oppressive. Promotes the idea that if women suffer in this life then they'll recieve equality in heaven, allowes women to put up with being treated as inferior.
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Evidence of patriarchy
Religious organisation=male dominated, Places of worship=segregates sexes, scared texts=by male gods, religious laws and customs
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Karen Armstrong
Early religions often placed women at the centre. i.e. earth mother goddesses.
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Abbott and Wallace
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Traditional healers persecuted becuase of threat to male domination of medicine.
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