Patriarchal religions purify woman of her stained nature through male-defined submission

Evidence

And yet Evil needs Good, matter needs the idea, and night needs light. Man knows that to satisfy his desires, to perpetuate his existence, woman is indispensable to him; he has to integrate her in society: as long as she submits to the order established by males, she is cleansed of her original stain. This idea is forcefully expressed in the Laws of Manu: “Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river united with the ocean, and she is admitted after death to the same celestial paradise.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 170

Categorization

• XREF: The Laws of Manu model of woman assuming her husband’s qualities parallels Kant’s and Hegel’s treatment of woman’s derivative moral standing — the Other as parasite on male transcendence. — connects to: The Madonna cult and witch persecutions are paired expressions of Christian contempt for woman — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 89; Female virtue is the broken form in which exploited nature enters male culture — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 256; Biblical-era women were property bound to male kin and taboo-burdened (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Purity culture assigned women responsibility for controlling male sexual desire #expands (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 389
• Purity culture reasserted patriarchal headship through rituals and consumer goods #expands (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 393
• Christian doctrine institutionalized women’s subordination despite early egalitarian impulses #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 204
• Adultery is judged more seriously for women under patriarchal tradition #exemplifies (0.70)