These revision notes for the new OCR Religious Studies A level cover the issues of gender in society and the views of the church regarding the role of women in society. They cover an overview of the development of feminism, sexism in the Bible and the Church and mulieris dignitatem. They are detail...
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9: Gender and Society
Sex/ Gender Someone's biological sex is determined by physical attributes such as chromosomes, sex
organs, and hormones levels. Gender relates to the more sophisticated way people
perceive themselves and express themselves. Some people believe gender is acquired-
something learned through socialisation
English English is a very gendered language with gender pronouns, gendered family words e.g.
Language 'uncle' 'auntie' 'Mr' 'Mrs'. The language is very gender binary
Patriarchal Most societies are patriarchal -where men have more power and wealth. It is an
societies 'accepted truth' in patriarchal societies that men are stronger than women and they
have different aptitudes which made them better suited to different roles in public and
private life. Men are seen as more rational, women as emotional, softer and
compassionate
Mary Wrote 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' in 1792. She argued that the education
Wollstonecraft system deliberately trained girls to be frivolous and incapable. She argues the education
system should be made equal to result in women who would make exceptional wives
and mothers as well as capable workers. She believed the change would benefit all of
society. It caused controversy but failed to bring immediate reforms
Harriet Taylor Wrote The Enfranchisement of Women in 1851 which argued that women should get
Mill equal political, social and civil rights as men believing this would benefit all of society.
She believed women are oppressed because of their biological function in reproduction,
the 'maternity argument', used as a way to exclude women from public life and deny
them opportunities
First Wave The name given to the women's enfranchisement movement which began in the late
Feminism 19th century
Emmeline Founded the women's franchise league 1894 which secured married women the right to
Pankhurst vote in local elections. Founded the women's social and political union (WSPU) in 1903. It
turned militant from July 1912 but was called off in 1914. The Representation of the
People Act 1928 establishing voting equality for men and women and was granted a
few weeks before her death
Emily Wilding Joined WSPU in 1906 and served a jail sentence in 1912. 1913 Epsom Derby she was killed
Davison when trying to hand the rider a sufferage flag. Her death did not affect political change
but thousands marched at her funeral procession
Second Wave Began in the 1960s and looked at wider issues of women's sexual health, domestic abuse,
Feminism rape and equality in the workplace. In 1974 family planning clinics were allowed to
prescribe the contraceptive pill to single women. Abortion was illegal until 1967. In 1970,
women were legally entitled to be paid the same as men for the same work
Third-wave Question the notion of gender roles and aims to be inclusive of all women as a reaction
feminism to earlier waves which concentrated on the voices of affluent, heterosexual white
women in the west
Liberal Feminists that seek equality for women by campaigning for changes in the law e.g.
feminism through protests
Radical The view that women cannot be liberated within a capitalist patriarchal society and it
feminism advocates a total uprooting and rebuilding of society
Marxist Sees women's struggle for freedom through the lens of Marxism. Women's oppression is
feminism understood as a symptom of the oppression that occurs when there is private ownership
of the means of production
Black A strand of feminist that aims to give voices to and further the interests of non-white
feminism women in their own cultural context
Eco-feminism Emphasises a connection between women and the natural world, seeing a relationship
between care for the planet and freedom for women and placing blame for damage to
the planet on patriarchal capitalism
Separatist Advocates separation from men, physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.
feminism Argues for women-only spaces and promotes lesbian relationships. Sometimes promotes
spelling "women" as "womyn" in order to remove "men" from the word "women."
Christian Feminist theology seeks to recover non-patriarchal roots of early Christianity, the strong
feminism role of women in early Christian church, revive and rescue egalitarian message of
religious texts, search for gender-neutral ways to worship. Some focus on the need to
achieve equality in the leadership of the church. Others believe Christian worship should
focus on the feminine God. Others argue that feminism and Christianity are entirely
incompatible because it is too closely linked to patriarchy
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