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Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.

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WE ORDINARILY INTERPRET ACTION with reference to the relation between means and ends so that if we know that a man is cutting wood to build a house, we believe we understand his action.

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  • Title Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity
  • Author Nancy Jay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition 5th
  • Pages 222
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1994-01-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780226395739 / 0226395731
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.09 x 6.06 x 0.5 in (23.09 x 15.39 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Religion - Commentaries / Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Paternity, Sacrifice
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91-33085
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.691

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At the time of her death in 1991, Nancy Jay was a lecturer in social sciences and religion at the Harvard Divinity School.
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