Women's Informal Associations in Developing Countries: Catalysts for Change? by Kathryn S March

Author:Kathryn S March [March, Kathryn S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Political Science, General, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9780367214050
Google: WgKaDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 46180189
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Leadership at these ritual meals is also not formally ranked or announced, but based on women’s informal knowledge of each other’s qualifications. The women who lead the prayers, recite religious stories, and direct sermons must know the scriptures, but they must also be women who can use their knowledge of religious accounts to comment on women’s conception of their world. Thus, women use religious knowledge and the forum of ritual gatherings both to expound and to evaluate the constraints imposed on them by religion. One woman, who had been recommended highly to lead a ritual meal the year before, according to

Betteridge, had been very entertaining. She had told all those present that any women who did not make love with her husband when he wanted to would be hung by her breasts in hell. [One woman]’s apt comment to the women seated around her had been, ‘If a man doesn’t make love with his wife when she wants to, what do they hang him by?’ [She] said that last year’s rowzeh leader had been invited by mistake…A woman across the way laughed when she heard the story and told that she had come this year in hopes of hearing the same woman speak. An older woman next to me…told me not to believe what the woman had said about wives being punished in hell, because it probably wasn’t true (1980: 149).

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