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Quelle: Randall 1987 Seite(n): 15, 20, 21, 25, 26, Zeilen: 15:2-3.16-18; 20:29-31.(38-37); 21:(11-16),17-18; 25:40-26:1ff. |
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| Is male dominance universal? Have men exercised disproportionate power over women in all known societies to date? The thesis of universal male dominance, whether upheld by feminists or by anti-feminists, is supported by a substantial body of scholarship, much of which is anthropological. Whatever term is used - male dominance, male supremacy or patriarchy - it stands for a far-reaching social subordination of women. There are three main theses in explaining women’s oppression: those that attribute it to biology, to culture and to the economic system. However, the oldest and most obvious explanation for women’s oppression is the biological differences between men and women. Women have been made dependent upon their men-folk through their biological vulnerability associated with menstruation, the menopause and other female ills such as constant painful childbirth, wet-nursing and the care of the infants. | [page 15]
Women's place in society Is male dominance universal? Have men exercised disproportionate power over women in all known societies to date? [...] The thesis of universal male dominance, whether upheld by feminists or by anti-feminists, is supported by a substantial body of scholarship. Much of this is anthropological. [...] [page 20] Whatever term we use - male dominance, male supremacy or patriarchy - it stands for a far-reaching social subordination of women. [...] The subordination of women has been explained in an enormous variety of ways, [...] [page 21] Therefore, although I have divided the following discussions of explanations of male dominance into those emphasizing biology, culture and the economic system respectively, this is for reasons of intelligibility and is not intended to imply that these elements are either easily defined or independent of each other. Anatomy as destiny The oldest, and most obvious, explanation for women’s oppression is the biological differences between men and women. [...] [page 25] First, women have been made dependent upon their menfolk through [page 26] their biological vulnerability associated with menstruation, the menopause and other 'female ills', constant painful childbirth, wet-nursing and the care of the infants. |
Although (nearly) every sentence nearly identically stems from Randall (1987) nothing has been marked as a citation. |
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