He learned it in the book of Genesis in the Bible. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says. If there is anything they want to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. In the bible, as in soap operas, women s concerns center almost exclusively on childbearing and on her relationships with men.
Biblical women appear only when they enter men's perception as mothers, wives, or harlots. . .
You may think those words mean the same thing, but they do not. This isn't just about Judaism and Christianity, unfortunately. About a decade ago I attended annual three-day reports from a sexier study called The Fundamentalism Project, undertaken by the University of Chicago Divinity School through a huge Mac Arthur grant. Over 150 scholars wrote papers on fundamentalisms from all over the world, and presented abstracts of their work in these annual public reports. It is fundamentally about patriarchal rule, and the place of women.