Women of God
by
Orit Avishai
| October 30, 2010
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Fall 2010
Common conceptions of conservative religions in North America and Europe assume religion is “bad” for women. Even fundamentalist religions, criticized as patriarchal and oppressive, may open up spaces for women’s agency and provide empowering experiences for female members.
Author
Orit Avishai is in the sociology and anthropology department at Fordham University. She studies how religion shapes conversations about gender, sexuality, and family life among Orthodox Jews in Israel and Evangelicals in the United States.
