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WOMEN.... AND OTHER.... BEASTS OR "WHY CAN'T A WOMAN BE MORE LIKE A MAN" (professor Higgins in My Fair Lady) (Review article) R. J. Z. WERBLOWSKY The study of religions has been blighted, perhaps more than any other branch of the historical and social sciences, by the appearance and mushrooming of fads of which one can only hope that they will disappear much as they have come. Black Religion, Women in Religion and the like seem to be flourishing particularly in Divinity Schools and Faculties of Theology-a phenomenon for which there is a very simple and obvious explanation; but since this review- article is not an essay on the sociology of academic fads the subject shall not be further pursued here. But to mitigate the impression of reactionary male chauvinism conveyed by the preceding lines it may be useful, however, to re-state certain commonplaces that were obvious to everybody long before Women's Liberation, Women's Studies and Women-in-Religion were ever heard of. The writer craves the reader's indulgence for repeating here some old, obvious, hackneyed and trite commonplaces. In the first place it has always been taken for granted by most students (pace Bachofen and his small band of
Numen – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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