Matriarchy

together and shiver. Another topic I learned was that honey is an extremely efficient cough suppressant—even better than some over the counter medicines. Finally, my favorite thing I gathered from this topic is that honey bees are a tightly run matriarchy. The males, called drones, are just there to mate with the queen. They later are kicked out of the hive by the female honey bees. 2. If you were to write your paper over, what would you change and why? If I were to write my paper over again, I…

Over time, the word feminism has slowly gained multiple misconceptions and negative connotations. Some believe that feminism is anti-male, anti-"stay at home mom", pro-abortion, and so many other misconstrued beliefs. However, as defined in the Webster Dictionary, the word feminism is "the theory of political, economical, and social equality of the sexes." So before you decided to be against a movement that fights for equality of rights between men and women, l advise you to learn the true…

Boys Will Be Boys “Boys will be boys”, is a saying that is heard all too often. Many think of it as a rational reasoning for a male child’s behavior. However, is it really a rational reasoning? What does such a seemingly harmless saying really do? “Boys will be boys” is an excuse for unacceptable behavior by a male taking no responsibility for their actions by blaming it on their gender. Not only does this saying not take responsibility for a male’s behavior but it also sets a standard for…

In her work, Lugones intends to utilize part of Quijano’s concepts to explain the role of heterosexism and Eurocentrism play in how gender and race are viewed in society. She does this by analyzing several topics. Lugones explores the colonialty of power, intersexuality, non-gendered and gynecratic egalitarianism and the modern gender system in order to prove that heterosexism and eurocentrism to clarify their function in interrelating race and gender. In order to formulate her point, Lugones…

for food. As a result, the emergence of surplus product stimulated the processes of the social structuring and stratification of the population. In the Neolithic period, the change of human major activities caused the change of familial roles from matriarchy to patriarchy.…

(INSERT CATCHY THING) Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962. The novel presented many hippie, counter culture ideas, such as society’s negative toll on an individual’s psyche, and that sanity and madness is more of a matter of who is and isn’t adjusted to society (Shechner, 2002). The novel also explores the deplorable conditions and treatments mental patients are subjected to, from electroshock therapy to lobotomies to physical and mental abuse, all from the perspective of a…

anything” (Fight Club). Apocalyptic films in which everything is demolished is just the first step in the audience’s path towards being free. With the destruction of the world, there are no cares left for men. Dull jobs are thrown to the wayside and the matriarchy is quickly forgotten along with the previous society. Men become masculine once again when time requires it, and they instantaneously change from a sedentary lifestyle to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. One notable example of reverting to…

Or maybe for some… hero? I’m not saying one answer is “right” and one answer is “wrong”, it’s just something to think about. Because there are in fact, different types of feminists. Some, on the extreme side of the spectrum, would like a complete matriarchy. Others, just want what feminists have been wanting from the time the term first originated: equality. Feminism’s gotten a bad reputation lately. For many, even just the word itself conjures up images of radical ideology. Pop music star…

1. What new technologies enabled the growth of interregional trade networks and agricultural developments? In this time period people made different technologies for different uses. Three things that are very useful are the compass, caravan, and the plow. The compass was more useful for trading. It was used to tell basic location using North, South, East, and West. It made getting to a location for trade much easier. The caravan could’ve been used for both trade and agriculture. It made…

Black, White, Asian, and Hispanic women all have one thing in common. They all have dealt with some form of oppression. bell hooks exemplifies a woman who seeks change and improvement in the feminist movement. When bell hooks enrolled in a graduate class on Feminist Theory she realized all her readings were written by white women and one black man. She had every right to be curious of the works from women of different cultures. Did I mention bell hooks was black? Oppression has no color or…