gender and society

• Traditional views of gender

  Aquinas - women are 'defective' and inferior to men
• Ephesians 5

  patriarchy

  • wives must submit to their husbands as they submit to the Lord
  • husbands are the head of their wives just as God is the head of the church
  • comparison to a child obeying their parents - infantilising

  Daly - if God is male then male is God

  
  

  
  

  opposite

  • husbands must love their wives as themselves - feed and care for them
  • wives should respect their husbands
  • a man will leave his parents and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh