Religious Fundamentalisms and the Systematic Oppression of Women

Name: Religious Fundamentalisms and the Systematic Oppression of Women
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ISBN: 9783639076646

ISBN-10: 3639076648

ISBN-13: 9783639076646

Edition: 2008

Authors: Molly Hines

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Molly Swets examines the growing global threat of fundamentalists who use religion as a political tool to gain control. Using Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" which satirizes the 1980s movement by the US Christian New Right that called for women to return to the home and speculates the disastrous results for women if this call were taken to an extreme, Swets compares Atwood's fictional theocratic society with contemporary fundamentalist organizations to reveal startling similarities in the methods used to oppress women: confining them to domestic and reproductive duties, creating a strict dress code, and restricting access to education and to the interpretation of sacred texts.…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: .AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.18" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English