Matriarchy

things plus earning money for the household. As stated in the article in paragraph 5, “The curtailment of such male entitlements and the expansion of women’s legal and economic rights have transformed American life but they have hardly produced a matriarchy” (Coontz). This takes a stance of being sided with the woman’s view. It’s almost as if she’s hammering the male…

The short story Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston takes place during the Spring season in Florida, where the main character Delia Jane is sorting piles of clothes that she has to wash on a late Sunday night. Unlike her husband, Sykes, Delia Jane is a hard working woman who has reversed their gender roles and taken Sykes stereotypical male role of being the main economic provider of their home that result with Sykes being abusive towards her. He feels emasculated by not being able to provide any…

million, the top male model only 1.5 million. And do these men complain? Do they call out female oppression, demanding to be paid 25x more despite being such a small industry? Of course not. These men don’t complain like feminists do, blaming the matriarchy for their struggles. They recognise that the female industry is much larger, and don’t take the earnings gap as discrimination, but factor in the simple economics involved. If something proves to be more lucrative, the company will put more…

and returning to it a changed person, is the new woman, successfully becoming the man of the house as a result of her economic empowerment. In her subsequent fiction, Cobwebs and Other Stories, and The Descendants, Alkali moves beyond the idiom of marriage, the rather comfortable province of womanism. The gap between The Stillborn and The Descendants sees Alkali as an innocent author of a well received, well discussed, debut, gradually finding herself participating in a complex…

“He pulls down one of my straps […] I lie there like a dead bird […] I can’t afford pride or aversion” (Atwood, 294). The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood are dystopian novels where the roles of men are women are explicitly distinguished to achieve one goal. In both novels, men oppress women from their feminism ideologies to reach the paramount goal of restoring the ability to conceive babies without deformities; however, the women differ in…

Marduk created people that would serve heavens divinities. The myth shows the transition from life coming from water to it being created by a God and having a heaven. Marduk taking over the reign allowed for the change in polytheistic history from matriarchy to patriarchy. This made the transition from female divinities to make divinities. For centuries women were seen as divine and the power came from their line, now the roles switch. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s first epic. This epic…

places like America and the Middle East that weren’t wrong in their ways and those places weren’t always accepting of Western Europe’s insistence on reform, for example the Cherokee Tribe in America during European expansion (1500—1900). They had a matriarchy, but this was all wrong to the Europeans and completely against God to the Europeans. It was the way that women were the heads of families, and had…

Has anything from your past ever come back to haunt your daily life? Well in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns the author Khaled Hosseini depicts many characters who are impacted from their past and that it takes a toll on how they cope with certain situations and why they do certain things. Some of the characters that have been shaped from their past are Laila, Nana, and Mariam. A character that was shaped by the education and liberal beliefs instilled in her from her parents is Laila. An…

In Search of the Promised Land, written by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, presents a story of the Thomas-Rapier family who has many family members who experience their own struggles and different journeys in search of this promised land they hope to find. The authors describe different tales of Sally Thomas and her kin as they live through and encounter the harsh forces of racism and slavery. While exploring the family’s search for freedom, economic stability, and the promised land…

Nuclear family is a basic unit which consists of a heterosexual couples with one or more children dependant on their parents and is hence considered to be the ‘cereal packet family’. The family is regarded as the cornerstone of the society and family life has become a topic of political debate. Different sociologists have different perspectives of how the nuclear families serve the interests of the state. Functionalists argued that each institution has a set of crucial interlocked roles to…