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Disrupting the Waters of Patriarchy : A Critical Evaluation of the Role of Christianity in Promoting Male Hegemony and Women’s Economic Disempowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Naicker, Linda (2025): Disrupting the Waters of Patriarchy : A Critical Evaluation of the Role of Christianity in Promoting Male Hegemony and Women’s Economic Disempowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Molly Manyonganise, Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, Linda Naicker, u. a. (Hrsg.), Religion, Gender and Masculinities in Africa : Essays in Honour of Ezra Chitando, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, S. 107–122, doi: 10.20378/irb-106039.
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Religion, Gender and Masculinities in Africa : Essays in Honour of Ezra Chitando
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2025
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978-3-98989-042-8
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English
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The economic disenfranchisement of women in Sub-Saharan Africa is influenced by a variety of intersecting factors that create barriers to development and full participation in the economy. Addressing these factors requires a multifaceted approach. In this chapter, I address the issue of patriarchal biblical interpretation and male hegemony. Scholars have long argued that androcentric biblical interpretations have prioritized and advanced male agendas and positions. In so doing, women’s roles, perspectives, and positions in society are deliberately cast as secondary to that of men, reinforcing patriarchy. Consequently, the subordinate and subservient positions of women have become a taken for granted norm. Following a qualitative research design using interpretive analysis of the work of Ezra Chitando and African Women’s Theology, I contend that androcentrism, patriarchy and dominant and toxic masculinities, sanctioned by male hegemony and biblical interpretation, play a pivotal role in the economic disenfranchisement of women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
Christentum
Patriarchat
Frau
Entmündigung
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Sub-Saharan Africa
women
economic disenfranchisement
male hegemony
patriarchal biblical interpretation
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February 13, 2025
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