Propecia Case Memo

It has been a driving force of political action , wars and societal changes as evidenced by numerous instances in history . As such it makes sense that with the influential capacity of the church it would also have the power to influence societies view about women . During the early modern period of European history the church espoused that women were the origin of sin while at the same time venerated Mary the Mother of Christ as being exempt from this status due to the miracle of her own birth and the birth of Jesus

Christ

Thus the result was that the church continuously espoused a message wherein women should be more like the Virgin Mary in word and in deed In bible history Mary has been shown to be a woman of great faith in the Lord while at the same time showing herself to be a good mother as well as a good wife to Joseph . She is portrayed as being very demure possessing great strength of character and an apparent subservience to her husband as characterized by her unquestioning faith during their journey away from Bethlehem at the behest of Joseph in to escape the purge of King Herod

These messages imparted by the Church created the basis by which the feminine characteristics of women at the time were to be determined Namely that of faith in their husband , subservience and being a good mother (Moore 2010 . The end result was the embedding of a cultural perception of a woman 's worth as being her ability to care for her home husband and children

Cultural Perception of Women

As a result of the social conventions associated to women by the church the end result was that women were perceived as being the weaker sex useful only as means of...