so now it's time to make a comparative analysis across genders through racial lines. recently read something about mormons christianizing khmer girls and teaching them abstinence in order to prevent teen pregnancies. through this practice, they also created a gendered structure that defines a woman's behavior according to the "will of God." i don't know if it's too presumptuous to make that connection, but christian religion seems to do just that - define our gendered roles and expectations. it's responsible for telling us stories about virgin mary and mary magdalene. two very contrasting images of women but very telling of today's society.
catholicism was used as a tool to colonize the people of the philippines. it was used as a way to divide the society based on gender and class, giving the upper hand to elite males. through the spaniards' development of the educational system in the philippines, women and men received different types of education. . . women were domesticated and taught to adhere to the virgin mary image (despite friars' numerous claims to immaculate conception when a filipina they had sex with was impregnated or even the underground abortion clinics).
is it through religion that this virgin/whore, maria clara/prostitute complex is constructed and embedded into our society?
we all got this complex.
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