Refusing Holy Orders: Women and Fundamentalism in Britain

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Refusing Holy Orders: Women and Fundamentalism in Britain

Publication Authors: Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis.

Women, their roles and above all, their control, are at the heart of the fundamentalist agenda. That they should conform to the strict confines of womanhood within the fundamentalist religious code is a precondition of maintaining and reproducing the fundamentalist version of society.