Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c.500 - 1200 by Helen M. Jewell

need to interpret the scriptures of their traditions from the standpoint provided by their own experience as women–thus offering new interpretations which they perceive to constitute a powerful tool with which to mount a critique of the theological traditions that had excluded them. It shows how, in response to this exclusion, feminist theologians from each of these religions have observed a. This article surveys some of the ways in which certain representative feminists from each of the Abrahamic religions have argued that patriarchal religious traditions have systematically excluded women from contributing to traditionally accepted interpretations of their sacred texts. Hence, it would not be wrong to state that she was among the first defenders of equality between the sexes and that she was courageous enough to stand up to the holy book. Her stories function as a reply to the ones in the Bible and try to refute the misrepresentation of the women in it. To this end, she provides us with many woman portraits.

Similarly, 14th century French author Christine de Pizan purports that the women are as intelligent and powerful as the men. On the other hand, taking some verses of it as their mainstay, Christian egalitarians defend that both sexes are equal in the eyes of God. In both cases, the women are not given the position they deserve and the male-female inequality inherent in the society gains strength with the holy book. In them, the women are either represented in derogatory terms such as sinful-being the descendants of Eve or portrayed less important than the men. Some of these stories are about the women. The Bible is the sacred text of Christianity and Judaism and it contains stories about the lives of the people in the past.

Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c.500 - 1200 by Helen M. Jewell