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Women's Empowerment and Restriction Through Divine Creativity,…
Women's Empowerment and Restriction Through Divine Creativity
Empowering
Indigenous Religions
Earth is the Mother, everything was created by female Divine Creator
WR, pg 39
"... the soil will bear fruit only if women are the farmers, for it is they who have the generative power and the most intimate relationship with the earth." WR, pg 44
Relationship to Feminism
Societies mostly matrilineal, women as respected spiritual leaders with equal rights to men
WR, pg 37
Religious and spiritual rituals are firmly the responsibility of women
WR, pg 52
Identities other than straight and cis are celebrated
WR, pg 38
Hinduism
Relationship to Feminism
Shakti (divine creativity inherent to women)
Shown through dance
Portraying women/femininity as divine
"Sometimes men in their own secret ceremonies even try to mimic women's menstrual bleeding by subincision of the penis to make it bleed" WR, pg 39
Men trying to emulate women as a form of worship and respect
Menstruation as an example of women's power
WR, pg 47
"Haven't we still our uteri?" WR, pg 46
Female power and rage
Comparison between Oya (WR, pg 41) and Kali
Buddhism
Relationship to Feminism
Restricting
Hinduism
Relationship to Feminism
If a woman's husband sins, she is blamed for not being able to stop him (very similar belief in Victorian England actually, which is very interesting)
Buddhism
Relationship to Feminism
Women can't be ordained
Indigenous Religions
Relationship to Feminism
Female genital surgery
Reasons of chastity, enhancing beauty, or improved hygiene or control over bodies. Also sometimes seen as preparation for pain of childbirth
WR 54
Women's worth comes from their ability to give birth (excludes women who can't/don't want to and trans people)
Intro
It is usually the role of women to act as spiritual caretakers, performing the rituals and standing as spiritual heads of the household, but in a lot of religions. Why?
WR, pg 13
Responsibility of religious preparation every day falls to women