Procreation Served Patriarchy
April 12, 2010
At the moment, I’m feeling a bit stunned. Epiphanies can be a lot like choking. In her book Sexual Politics and the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman, Esther Fuchs writes, “Procreative contexts are the only ones in which women address Yhwh and hold a dialogue with him.” (pg. 45)
It is no coincidence that stories of women who didn’t receive their conception miracle and remained “barren” were not included in Biblical texts. Procreation served patriarchy.
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