Use of Patriarchy and Religion to Oppress Women

Evil, sinful, Satan's lover is just an adjective used to explain women in history. However, women are not necessarily drawn like this. Women once had powerful and dominant people in society. In ancient Egyptian society, women were equal in rank and men had fame. During the 18th century women such as Nephertiti and Hatchipsoot ruled the country.

Women's repression is very old. It existed before capitalism, capitalism was also a repressive system, but it was more global. Patriarchalism can be defined simply as male to female repression and objectivity. In addition to a strict economic form, this oppression is expressed in many ways, especially through languages, relatives, stereotypes, religions, and culture. Formal repression depends on whether you live in the north or live in the south or live in a city or rural area.

Feminist theorists wrote many articles about patriarchalism as the main cause of women's oppression or as part of an interactive system. Shulamith Firestone is an extreme liberal feminist who believes patriarchal is a repressive female system. Firestone believes patriarchalism is caused by biological inequality between men and women. For example, women have children, but men do not have children. Firestone wrote that a patriarchal ideology supports women's repression, for example by incorporating the joy of childbirth, she marks patriarchal myths. In the case of Firestone, women need to control reproductive to avoid repression. Feminist historian Gerdalna believes that the management of female sexual desire and reproductive function by men is the underlying cause and result of patriarchal regimes. Alison Jagger also believes that patriarchalism is the main cause of women's oppression. The patriarchal system achieves this purpose by alienating women and their bodies.

Paternity is a social and ideological structure that men (they are patriarchies) are better than women. Sylvia Walby calls it "theory patriarchy." "Social structure and practice system in which men dominate, squeeze, and exploit women" (Walby, 1990). The patriarchal system is based on a hierarchical and unequal power relationship system, men dominate the production, reproductive and sexual behavior of women and impose masculinity and femininity on society. Stereotypes have strengthened unreasonable power relations between men and women. The patriarchal system is not constant, and the dynamic and complicated gender relationship has changed during the historical period. Due to differences in class, caste, religion, region, ethnicity, socio-cultural customs, the nature of dominating and conquering women varies from society to society.