Theories of Gender

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Theories of Gender
Presented by Cassandra Stepp-Bolling For EWS
425H
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Background Information

• Differences Between Sex and Gender
• - Sex What you are biologically born as XX or
  XY
• -Gender A socially acquired idea femininity or
  masculinity.

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Background

• Inventive Opportunity
• (Post Takeover)
• No exploration
• No rough and tumble
• No play in general
• No opportunity for invention

• Inventive Opportunity
• (Pre-Takeover)
• Occupation acted as a catalyst for invention
• Scrappers
• Tanning
• Cooking surfaces
• Herbal remedies

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Background
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The Three Theories

• Why do we behave the way we do?

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Karl Marxs Theory
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Marxs Theory

• There is a separation of class
• Conflicts will always occur between the classes
• History of society is history of class struggles
• There will always be the exploiters and the
  exploited
• Classes brought together by a common interest
• Women are one class men are another

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Matriarchy Perplex

• Was there ever a Matriarchal society?

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Matriarchy Perplex

• Women provided 60-80 of food
• Women were active in hunting and gathering
• Women were first to control fire
• Women gave birth
• Women bled without dying
• Most likely women had more power than men

• Men were stronger
• May have acted as a counterbalance
• Possible equality among men and women

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Matriarchy Perplex

• Minoan-Crete most likely a Matriarchal society
• Had major female deities
• Had no dominating male deities
• Can not be proved that it was not a Patriarchy

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Take Over Theory
The Replacement of Womens Power
VS.
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Take Over Theory

• Reasons For Take Over
• Males realized their role in procreation
• Advances in horticulture
• Population explosion
• War
• Changes in Religion

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Take Over TheoryAdvances in Horticulture

• Domestication of animals
• Invention of a steel plow
• Large scale irrigation
• A need to defend territory

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Take Over TheoryWar

• War was debilitating for many reasons
• Women were not as strong as men
• Were already socialized not to fight
• Weapons made for fighting were in the possession
  of men
• Allowed for women to become slaves

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Take Over TheoryReligion

• Before Takeover
• Athena
• Hera
• Artemis
• Aphrodite
• Gaia
• Maat
• Isis
• White Buffalo Calf Women

• After Takeover
• Abraham
• Jesus
• Mohammed
• The Witness of the Mormon Tablets
• Buddha
• Yu-huang

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Take Over TheoryReligion Bible Quotes

• If a maiden who is engaged to be married, and a
  man finds her in the city and lies with her,
  you shall stone them to death- the young woman
  because she did not cry for helpand the man
  because he violated his neighbors wife.
  (Deuteronomy 2223-24)
• If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is
  not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with
  her Then the man who lay with her shall give the
  girls father fifty shekels of silver, and she
  shall be his wife, because he has violated her
  he may not divorce her in all his days.
  (Deuteronomy 2228-29)
• Judges 1923-30

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Women and Technology Today

• Women are still not well known for their
  inventions
• Due to a lack of rights men take credit for many
  womens inventions
• Women are slowly gaining power again Feminist
  movement
• Still in 1998 women only held 10.3 of patents

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Little Known Women Inventors

• Bette Graham liquid paper
• Lillian Malt Stephen Hobdays Keyboard
• Harriet R. Strong storage dam and reservoir
  system
• Ruth Wakefield Tollhouse cookies
• Jeanne Mance Prepaid healthcare system

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Questions?