Matriarchy

Many female rulers were as influential as and sometimes more successful than the male emperors. Toregene Khatun was a regent who revealed the effectiveness of matriarchy and strengthened women’s power by “crushing her resistance with diplomatic and political skills” (Nicola 2017). Sorghaghtani also took a big step for Mongol empires’ advancement by changing the Khanates’ bloodlines and placing her four sons to all…

List and discuss the common cultural themes of family and marriage. There are many forms of family and marriage. The most accepted form of family and marriage is a male and female with or without children. Polygyny is a form of marriage where men have more than one wife, and polyandry women have more than one husband. Some societies are even accepting gay and lesbian marriages with and without children. The common cultural themes of family and marriage are first, mate selection. This is…

The constraint of gender inequality in leisure participation Leisure activities becomes more popular in recent decades. People participate leisure activities to enjoy life and reduce pressure. Different people participate in different ways which related to a number of factors, such as their social status, cultural background, health and personal preference. The factors prevents people to join the leisure activities are known as constraints of leisure participation. Remarkably, gender as a…

As German feminist and advocate for Modern Matriarchal Studies Heide Göttner-Abendroth explains, “Equality does not mean a mere levelling of differences. The natural differences between the genders and generations are respected and honored in matriarchies…the different genders and generations each have their own value and dignity; and through complementary areas of activity they depend on each other.” Nevertheless, as agriculture reached Ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years later in 7,000 B.C…

Hanan Al-Shaykh is an Arab writer, whose stories and novels contain major roles for women in them. (Larson) From her writings, it can be seen that she subtly challenges the patriarchal system surrounding women and causes you to question the gender roles within society. (Al-Shaykh 793) In “A Season of Madness” the main character is Fatin, a wife, who is pretending that she is crazy to push her husband leave her. No matter what she does and what his mother says, he is faithful and unwilling to…

Literary Criticism: The Awakening and the Failure of the Psyche It is apparent that one can correlate Greek mythology to The Awakening when reading Franklin’s criticism. Franklin associates the paradigm of Psyche to the pathological, internal struggle of Edna, where the fear of the confrontation of solitude is prevalent. Franklin first explains the irony in the title of The Awakening, given the fact that Edna sleeps, living in a world filled with fantasy rather than being psychologically and…

in the Paleolithic Ages, before 10,000 years ago, there was not handwriting. Archeologist had to piece together the pieces they found along the way, which could be a bit confusing, as it did not tell the whole story. As it may seem there was no matriarchy or patriarchy in the Paleolithic ages, women seems to be…

QUESTIONS FOR MIDTERM 1. We gain knowledge and experience from various institutions; family, school, church, media, peer groups etc. Pick one of the institutions and discuss how you may have learned about crime from that institution and what social controls or constraints might be found within that institution? How and why might our views be biased regarding crime within that institution? Are you viewing this as an Absolutist, though relativism, objectivism, or subjectivism. I have personal…

was clearly widespread starting first with the devastation of the economy. However, the ending of Steinbeck’s book provides insight to that time and messages which prevail in a reader’s mind once finished with the book, those being of new life, matriarchy, and the inherent kindness in all people which was often displayed in this calamitous time period. Rose of Sharon’s bold act in suckling a grown man displays all three of these ideas, and most of all displays the desperate measures which these…

Throughout history, gender roles and social statuses have constantly been in flux and ever changing within every culture. One of the largest of these changes occurred between 35000 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. specifically during the beginning if the Neolithic revolution. Before the Neolithic revolution most people lived as nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Many responsibility’s held by women from these hunter gatherer society’s transferred over into civilized settlements. An example of this is the fact…