Fundamentalism and the Control of Women

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ID23185024
AuthorsKaren Mccarthy Brown (corresponding author)
Year1994
Pages175-201
Publication date1994-01-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueFundamentalism and gender (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195082616.003.0007
OpenAlexW4388384612
ISBN9780195082616
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Religious fundamentalism is very difficult to define; yet many of us—scholars and journalists in particular—think we know it when we see it. For those attuned to gender as a category of analysis, a stab of recognition is often occasioned by the presence of high degrees of religiously sanctioned control of women. In conservative religious movements around the world, women are veiled or otherwise covered; confined to the home or in some other way strictly limited in their access to the public sphere; prohibited from testifying in a court of law, owning property, or initiating divorce; and they are very often denied the authority to make their own reproductive choices.

Control (management) · Economics · Epistemology · Fundamentalism · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy) · Public sphere · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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