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Mind Map by anna_lewis_93, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by anna_lewis_93
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feminism and religion: case
study's
- foot binding in china
- started in 1200's
- not made illeagal until 1915
- continued illeagally until 1930's
- only done to girls aged 3-11
- women without bound
feet would not find a
husbad.
- no husband = no income
- un married women will
become "hungary ghosts" in
the afterlife
- what does this imply
about religion and
patriarchy?
- started in 1200's
- Sati in India
- A funeral practise among some Hindu communities in
which a recently widowed woman would either
voluntarily or by force and coercion immolate herself on
her husbands funeral pyre
- seen as proof of being a good Hindu wife
- Religious scholars say this
act is "justified in religous
scriptures"
- Illeagal today, but still
happens in rural India (last
incident 2006)
- what does this imply
about religion and
patriarchy?
- A funeral practise among some Hindu communities in
which a recently widowed woman would either
voluntarily or by force and coercion immolate herself on
her husbands funeral pyre
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