The Sexes in Science and History


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(4.9 Sterne; 6 Bewertungen)

In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man", Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other scientific information to compare the development of the male and female organisms and describe their differences. Introducing the role of the woman in prehistoric society, we see how that changed through the course of history, from evidence both in less advanced tribes and in civilized historic societies, to the marked progress in the social and economic conditions of women in the time this edition was published (1916). - Summary by Rapunzelina (9 hr 28 min)

Kapitel

Preface 7:27 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Development of the Organism 16:13 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Origin of Sex Differences 30:15 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Male Organic Defects 40:56 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Development of the Social Instincts and the Moral Sense 15:42 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Supremacy of the Male 29:02 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Method of Investigation 12:04 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Relation of the Sexes among Early Mankind 24:13 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Gens - Women under Gentile Institutions 50:00 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Origin of Marriage 1:02:36 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Mother-Right 16:53 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Theories to Explain Wife-Capture 34:51 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Early Historic Society Founded on the Gens 38:39 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Women in Early Historic Times 24:03 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Ancient Sparta 45:18 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Athenian Women 40:14 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Roman Law, Roman Women, and Christianity 28:58 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
The Renaissance 18:46 Gelesen von Rapunzelina
Conclusion 32:21 Gelesen von Rapunzelina

Bewertungen


(5 Sterne)

This book is fundamental (yet forgotten and perhaps intentionally not spoken of to the wider audience) in understanding how we were led to the institution of marriage and the consequential loss of inequality between the sexes. In the first social organization structures (gens/community life) land ownership and establishing one's power over another didn't really exist. As these communities and society evolved, a necessary evil occurred which entailed the subjugation of women as a wife. This was how men could be privileged with a view to: secure their line of succession and control childbirth. The way I understand it, after listening to EBG's is: men were able to gain the upper hand because the cultural norm and so societal expectations were changing, corruption was brewing and egoism substituted peaceful coexistence where woman (mother) played a vital role. When men started exercising their physical power over women, the world started its downfall and at the same time its progress. How tragic and unfair.

Great


(5 Sterne)

I was just listening enraptured with the depth of discussion. When I first started listening I thought it would be of some sort of feminist complaint against men. It wasn't though it was a perspective on female contributions, and hindered institutions that stop progress for everyone.