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THE CREATION OF PATRIARCHY
THE ORIGINS OF WOMEN'S SUBORDINATION. WOMEN AND HISTORY, VOLUME 1 |
| By: |
Gerda Lerner |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195051858 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195051858 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
22 October, 1987 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
Winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the best work on women's history Women's history is increasingly viewed as essential to the emancipation of women. Until recently, history has been recorded by men, providing a distorted and incomplete, patriarchal version of events. By examining the historical process, Gerda Lerner discovers why and how women have been excluded from history-making, from its very beginnings in ancient Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. Founded on men gaining control of women's sexuality, the establishment of patriarchy is fascinatingly recorded by Lerner, from the establishment of archaic states and law codes, to the degradation of the status of female godheads, and the association of female sexuality with sin and inferiority within Western civilization. |
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When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women has nothing to do with biology, and everything to do with cultural and historical habits. Dr Lerner draws her evidence from a host of archaeological, literary, and artistic sources, using them to pinpoint the critical turning points in the allocation of women's roles in society. She draws especially on archaeological evidence of the cultures of ancient Hebrew and Mesopotamian societies, cultures from which modern Western civilization has largely derived. This approach enables her to trace the ways in which men and women have been classified as essentially separate creatures - from ancient Greek philosophy onwards - and also to examine ways in which their experience of society differs, through the structures and symbols of class and religion.Most of all, by showing patriarchy as the result of an historical process, Lerner produces an irresistable argument that it can be altered, and ended, by similar means. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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Winner of Winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the best work on women's history. |
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