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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774708903321

Autore

O'Connor Frances B (Frances Bernard)

Titolo

The female face in patriarchy : oppression as culture / / Frances B. O'Connor, Becky S. Drury [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University, c1999

ISBN

0-585-18832-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 144 p. ) : ill. ;

Altri autori (Persone)

DruryBecky S

Disciplina

282/.082

Soggetti

Women in the Catholic Church - United States

Women in the Catholic Church - Brazil

Catholic women - United States - Interviews

Catholic women - Brazil - Interviews

Feminist theology

Women in the Catholic Church - Interviews - United States

Women in the Catholic Church - Interviews - Brazil

Catholic women - United States

Catholic women - Brazil

Religion

Christianity

Philosophy & Religion

Interviews.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Female Face in Patriarchy discusses women's complicity in patriarchal dominance and their role in fostering their own oppression. This work, the result of a two-year study by Frances O'Connor and Becky Drury focusing on Brazil and the United States, examines how and why women are participants and promoters of their own oppression in the Roman Catholic Church. Using the Church as a model for society in general, The Female Face in Patriarchy demonstrates how women, through centuries of conditioning, have become both victims and perpetrators of their own oppression and how their cooperation



with, and submission to, patriarchal dominance has been both conscious and unconscious. The authors begin by asking tough questions: How does patriarchy deform a woman's soul? How and why does a woman embrace patriarchy? What are the ramifications of female patriarchal behavior? Their conclusions are based on data gathered through hundreds of personal interviews with women in parish settings and small communities. Leading Catholic feminists were interviewed about their theories as to why women are co-opted by the patriarchal system. The experiences of grassroots sisters and other women were compared with, and used to either corroborate or refute, the assumptions and theories of leading American and Brazilian feminists. Women are formed to hang their heads.