Sentences with phrase «of a patriarchal society»

They are tired of the patriarchal society of the church, but they still don't address the fact that they still use a male term when addressing the deity in which they believe.

Behind this pronouncement are stereotypical definitions of masculinity and femininity that reflect rigid gender categories of patriarchal society.

But as Bishop Spong (1990) says: «Behind this pronouncement are stereotypic definitions of masculinity and femininity that reflect the rigid gender categories that arise out of a patriarchal society... Can a religious tradition that has long practiced circumcision and institutionalized celibacy ever dismiss any other practice on the basis of its unnaturalness?»

Reflected in these stories is a picture of patriarchal society with the father of the household the dominant head of the clan, and with few friendly dealings with neighboring clans.

The product of a patriarchal society, the Song's perspective is nonetheless egalitarian.

One answer is that «he» was invented by members of a Patriarchal society.

Though written from the bias of a patriarchal society, this passage clearly sanctions acts of divorce, leaving the question of grounds to the elusive justification that the wife possesses «some uncleanness» or that «she find no favor in his eyes.»

The writers touch delicately on the rigidity of the patriarchal society, notably in the invisibility of women in the shul, at the cemetery and at the memorial; or in the overheard protests of a young woman being prevented from attending college.

Living in a very Mexico, and part of a patriarchal society, her surrealist paintings reflected her desire for freedom and travel, but also her frustration of not being able to have children due to the numerous surgeries she underwent.

Embodying vital expressions of corporately stigmatized emotions, New Noveta go through grueling choreographed tasks with a reactive fervent distress, nonconforming to quotidian numbed repetition of patriarchal society.

The terms «monster» and «madwoman» are semantically similar in that they both constitute the language of misogyny designed to denigrate women who rebel against the «strictures of patriarchal society.»

Women's rights advocates hold that mediators can not address the power differences between divorcing husbands and wives because a mediator is powerless to change the fundamental rules of patriarchal society.

In fact, seen from the broader cultural context, Jesus can be described as a Reformer of patriarchal society.63 It is worthy to quote from Witherington that, «taking all the probably authentic material in the gospels together, it would appear that Jesus was a reformer of patriarchal society.