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Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
: (animaux@ix.netcom.com(:)))
22 Jul 1996 13:04:28 GMT
In <4svmh3$ods@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com> mbwillia@ix.netcom.com(Mary Beth
Williams) writes:
>
>I've always found the discussion of *were there matriarchal societies*
>to be loaded, a ruse for men to show just how superior all men, and
>hence themselves, are and have always been, over women. Why do we not
>focus instead on patriarchy? When did it develop? Under what
>conditions? Where/are all societies patriarchal?
>MB Williams
>Dept. of Anthro., UMass-Amherst
>
>
On a light note, I have a little cartoon where a cave man is laying in
all his blubbery mess of a self, on the floor, of the cave and he looks
up, at the woman, with many children hanging off of her hips and he
says, Well woman, go invent beer and television!
RainOne
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