Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference

Constellating Transnational Stories of Religious Gender-Based Violence and Feminist Resistance

Oct 23, 2024

Excerpt: The argument we make in this article is the argument our bodies make in protest to the violence that stretches forever across gendered religious landscapes. This violence bleeds out into the political, the social, and the cultural dimensions of our lives. Misogyny rooted in religious systems answers only to a male God, leaving little room for voices of dissent. To believe that the kinds of gendered violence happening in religious contexts are limited to those specific spaces might make readers feel better. However, religious spaces are not self-contained.