Many women believe they don’t have the right to have rights
Deepa Shankaran on the politics of religious fundamentalism:
In these politics, the key platforms are grounded in “morality”, “the family” and gender roles, and fundamentalist campaigns often call for a return to “traditional” values, speaking to the fear of social upheaval brought about by women’s growing autonomy, sexual liberation and the increasing visibility of LGBTQI people. According to women’s rights activists, a major fundamentalist strategy in every region is the use of discourse that blames social problems on a “decline in morality” or the “disintegration of the family”; and that presents rigid gender roles within the family as “natural.”…As these discourses translate into fundamentalist campaigning on specific laws, policies and practices, they give rise to concrete consequences for women’s human rights.
Quite. This is essentially the subject matter of Does God Hate Women?
Fundamentalist movements also exert a profound and long-lasting psychological impact – a reality that often goes unacknowledged. As Lucy Garrido in Uruguay remarks, “the most serious impact is that many women believe and feel that they don’t have the right to have rights, that decisions about themselves, their minds and bodies, are influenced by and can be made by others.”
Oh, yes. It is impossible to bring up the subject of religious misogyny (and not just of the “fundamentalist” variety) without examining how much women are brainwashed to be complicit in their own oppression, defend it, and perpetrate it. Which of course makes it far more difficult, as the phenomenon of very outspoken fundamentalist women demonstrates, or even moderate religious women, many of whom consider themselves “feminist,” in fact, defending any number of these practices or attitudes and getting really offended that you’re daring to question their beliefs and choices! Quite a balancing act to separate out personal autonomy and freedom of choice from such brainwashing as mentioned in the article — I’m still having a hard time with that in my own attitudes and values!
America’s fundamentalists: teaching Oppression of Women 101 to the world!
USA! USA! USA!
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Unfortunately, many, if not most of these places that they export their misogyny to really didn’t need any help in that regard! But having these attitudes confirmed by supposedly enlightened, modern American fundies, who do all they can to propagate it, is certainly not especially helpful, to say the least.