{"id":1705,"date":"2023-11-27T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T20:03:02","slug":"being-a-good-religious-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/christianity\/being-a-good-religious-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Good Religious Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">There are 32 countries that allow marital rape. Of the 150+ countries that do, some explicitly criminalize it, some it is simply considered the same as non-marital sexual assault etc. Some of those countries may in theory not exclude marital rape from being a crime, but those laws have never been tested, in effect meaning that men are free to rape their wives because the police and justice system will not prosecute. In the US, marital rape was fully criminalized in 1993, though each state has its own laws governing whether it is treated the same as other rape and\/or explicitly outlawed. 1993 is terrifyingly recent, less than a decade before I was born. The idea that marital rape is even considered possible is relatively recent, and pushes aside many thousands of years of religious traditions that hold that one of the duties of marriage is sex with ones spouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The duty of wives to be obedient to their husbands, particularly sexually, is a theme in many religions, including all three Abrahamic faiths and Hinduism. This art piece tries to show the overwhelming amount of scripture in many different faiths that assert a husband\u2019s authority over their wives. Some are admittedly smaller snippets from longer passages that could perhaps be interpreted differently. However all are or have been used to justify the abuse and subjugation of women for thousands of years. And women internalize such passages. Higher religiosity is correlated with higher rates of victim blaming, shame, and belief in rape myths. To be a good Christian (or Jewish, Muslim, etc.) wife involves, if scripture is followed literally, obeying one&#8217;s husband and giving him sex, whether she wants to or not. And that is something that all people of faith need to confront regardless of whether they take scripture literally or not. Without that confrontation, women will continue to be abused and silenced in the names of religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-Project1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-Project1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-Project1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/New-Project1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deosthali, Padma-Bhate, Sangeeta Rege, and Sanjida Arora. \u201cWomen\u2019s Experiences of Marital Rape and Sexual Violence Within Marriage in India: Evidence from Service Records.\u201d Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters 29, no. 2 (2022): 2048455\u20132048455. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/26410397.2022.2048455.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim, Deborah. &#8220;Marital Rape Immunity in India: Historical Anomaly Or Cultural Defence?&#8221; Crime, Law and Social Change 69, no. 1 (02, 2018): 91-107. doi:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10611-017-9705-3. https:\/\/ezp.lib.rochester.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/scholarly-journals\/marital-rape-immunity-india-historical-anomaly\/docview\/2002183689\/se-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilley, Caroline, Dominic Willmott, Dara Mojtahedi, and Danielle Labhardt. 2023. &#8220;Intimate Partner Rape: A Review of Six Core Myths Surrounding Women\u2019s Conduct and the Consequences of Intimate Partner Rape&#8221; Social Sciences 12, no. 1: 34. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/socsci12010034<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messina-Dysert, G. (2015). Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence: Religion, Testimony, and Visions of Healing (1st ed.). Routledge. https:\/\/doiorg.ezp.lib.rochester.edu\/10.4324\/9781315744605<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Piggott, Danielle Marie. \u201cThe Role of Religion in Rape Acknowledgement and Disclosure.\u201d ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images were all Public Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d like to thank my housemates, Svetlana and Delaney for providing some feedback\/suggestions on my final art piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 32 countries that allow marital rape. Of the 150+ countries that do, some explicitly criminalize it, some it is simply considered the same as non-marital sexual assault etc. Some of those countries may in theory not exclude marital rape from being a crime, but those laws have never been tested, in effect meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,26,35,36,61],"tags":[113,102,328,166,230,224,76],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-hinduism","category-islam","category-judaism","category-marriage","category-sexual-ethics","tag-art","tag-female-bodies","tag-graphic-art","tag-marriage","tag-patriarchy","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyarbrough.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/relc189gsws189\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}