Can you describe each phenomemon listed above and how it conforms to the six listed characteristics?
Sati
Feminist
Thought
Daly
on Suttee,
Genital Mutilation, etc.
1)
obsession with purity – keeping women/girls/nation pure
2)
erasure of (male) responsibility/demand for the practice – “just
following tradition”; make these
horrific
things seem normal
3)
tendency
to catch on or spread
*often
class basis for this – generally practiced among high caste/class women
– e.g.
Cleopatra – so lower classes/castes mimic
4)
women as
token torturers – mothers, daughters, wives
5)
compulsive orderl
6)
legitimation thru “objective” scholarship
e.g.,
value-free social science, multi-culturalism or cultural relativism
Can you describe
each phenomemon listed above and how it conforms to the six listed
characteristics?
Sati
Footbinding
FGM
Map
of Where FGM Widely Practiced
Witch burning
Gynecology
History
of Caesarean Site
Our Bodies, Our Selves
What parallels to sati, footbinding, FGM, witch burning exist in US
society today?
US
Elderly Women
17.3% of
nonmarried elderly women in the US live in poverty
High heels, Ballerina feet
Witch
burning
Denigrating
women's knowledge
