Religious accounts of partial human agency enable survival under patriarchal inequality

Evidence

In this section I would like to return to the exploration of different modalities of agency whose operations escape the logic of resistance and subversion of norms. In what follows I will investigate how suff and survival-two modalities of existence that are often considered to be the antithesis of agency-came to be articulated within the lives of women who live under the pressures of a patriarchal system that requires them to conform to the rigid de.. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1131 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christian doctrine institutionalized women’s subordination despite early egalitarian impulses — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 204; Religion offers oppressed groups a mirage of transcendence as compensation for immanence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1765; Diaspora Judaism’s spirituality was a defensive feminized redefinition of loss (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Suffering and survival under patriarchy can themselves be modalities of agency. #corroborates (0.92) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1131