Women and religion / Fatmagul Berktay ; translated into English by Belma Otus-Baskett.
"While taking women's subjectivities and reasons for their taking to religion into account, this book focuses mainly on the functions of religion: the way it relates to women; its contribution to gender differences; and the status of women within it, particularly the relationship between g...
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| Language: | English Turkish |
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Montreal :
Black Rose,
℗♭1998.
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| Series: | Black Rose books ;
no. AA261. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Religion, women and resistance
- Part I: 1. From the Mother Goddess to the power of the "inseminating word"
- 2. The power of the "inseminating word"
- Part II: 3. The distinctive feature of the patriarchy: the social control of woman's body
- 4. Christianity: a religion that attracted women
- Part III: 5. The spirit/body dichotomy: a polarization that divides human beings against themselves
- 6. Is the Islamic attitude towards body different?
- Part IV. 7. The position and control of woman: central concern of fundamentalism today
- 8. Fundamentalism in Iran: challenge to modernity
- Conclusion: Loving our crosses or getting rid of them?