The packet that we have to know for day 2 of the final
4430620473 | 8000-600: nomadic women | -relatively high status b/c of food gathering responsibilities -not many children b/c of lifestyle | 0 | |
4430620474 | 8000-600: early settled, agricultural communities | settled life, surplus of food led to larger # or children. women more tied to home, children, household tasks -men concerned about paternity before male heir to land-->beginnings of patriarchy | 1 | |
4430620475 | 8000-600: Egyptian women | -treated w/ more respect, legal rights, social freedoms than other cultures of this time period | 2 | |
4430620476 | Nubia (Kush) | matrilineal more freedoms like in Egypt | 3 | |
4430620477 | 8000-600: classic Greeks and Romans | -tight family structure with husband/father in control -women kept at home with little involvement in public/political life though they did serve as priestesses -some active in business and were landowners | 4 | |
4430620478 | 8000-600: Early Christianity | -lived in small communal groups -sharing food and income -women sometimes took turns leading religious services | 5 | |
4430620479 | 8000-600: Han China Women | -three submissions: parents, husband, then son -arranged marriages -lived w/ husband's family -rigid patriarchy -Confucianism adopted during this time | 6 | |
4430620480 | 600-1450: Pre-islamic arab women | -important economic roles in clan life, but performed drudge labor -no veils, no seclusion -multiple marriage partners for both sexes -males honored as warriors so they were favored for property, inheritance, and divorce | 7 | |
4430620481 | 600-1450: early islamic women in Umayyad Caliphate | -Muhammad strengthens women's legal inheritance and divorce rights -women only had one husband -men usually had four wives whom he treated equally -adultery equally denounced for both genders -more favorable status of women | 8 | |
4430620482 | 600-1450: Abbasid Caliphate | -men said that women had incurable lust so they must be segregated, harems, veiling, male dominance, concubines -poor women economically active -rich women stayed at home | 9 | |
4430620483 | 600-1450: Sudanic (grasslands) Africa (Ghana and Mali) | -Muslim women in urban areas not secluded or veiled -participate in public life and private discussions -singers, dancers -relative freedom of action and clothing shocked Ibn battuta -ME demanded these women as concubines/slaves | 10 | |
4430620484 | 600-1450: Medieval European Women | -more urban and complex cultre led to male dominance -males reinterpret Bible to placerestrictions on women | 11 | |
4430620485 | 600-1450: Aztec Women | -skill in weaving was esteemed -spent a lot of time grinding maize by hand -subordinate to males in political and social life | 12 | |
4430620486 | 600-1450: Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1127) | -footbinding of upperclass women in later half of this period -patriarchy of Ne-Confucianism kept women from education, civil service, inheritance, and other rights | 13 | |
4430620487 | 600-1450: Heian and Kamakura Japan | -women at court expected to be as cultured as men, but their lives were spent mostly in isolation studying Buddhism and writing -other women became appendages of warrior husbands or fathers -lost ritual roles and were replaced in the the theater by men. | 14 | |
4430620488 | 600-1450: Vietnam | -women active in the community, political life, and wet rice farming -most freedom and influence of any women of this time period -Trung sisters led the first century CE revolt against Han invaders-->national heroes | 15 | |
4430620489 | 600-1450: Mongol (Later Yuan) Dynasty | -women had greater freedom of movement, rights to property, and other opportunities-->like other nomadic cultures -some hunted and went to war -refused to adopt footbinding when in control of china | 16 | |
4430620490 | 600-1450: India (outside mughal empire) regional hindu kingdoms | -patriarchy -sati -child marriages -wedding dowries: meant that females were a burdan to the families which led to occasional infantcide | 17 | |
4430620491 | 600-1450: Europe | -marriage among non-elites led to smaller and nuclear families -less harsh discipline of children, more affection btw family members -women were a common target of witchcraft hysteria | 18 | |
4430620492 | 600-1450: Latin America | -sexual exploitation of indigenous and African women by European male settlers -small amount of Euro women led to many ethnic intermarriages -women under male authority -upperclass women confined to housework -lower class women active in many economic activities | 19 | |
4430620493 | 600-1450: Ottomon and Safavid | -women subordinate to fathers and husbands -elite women had few opportunities for expression outside of home -harems, veiling, concubines continue | 20 | |
4430620494 | 600-1450: Mughal india under Akbar | -short lived attempts to outlaw sati -discouraged arranged and child marriages -special market days where women (both hindu and muslim) could come out of homes | 21 | |
4430620495 | 600-1450: India after Akbar | -sati increases among upper class -increased arranged/child marriages, seclusion of all women -wedding dowries-->burden on poor families-->female infanticide | 22 | |
4430620496 | 600-1450: African Women | -desired for sexual and domestic employment in Ottoman Empire -not as valuable for slavery in W hemisphere - some cultures were matrilineal | 23 | |
4430620497 | 600-1450: Ming China | -confined to home, status based on amount of male children -some independence as courtesans and entertainers -some footbinding in upper class -some female infanticide | 24 | |
4430620498 | 1750-1914: Western Europe | -lower class women were paid 1/3 men's wages in mines and factories -public education increases for women -elite women influence Enlightenment as writers -organized salons -active in revolutions -slavery abolitionism -early socialism -beginning of women's suffrage movements | 25 | |
4430620499 | 1750-1914: Qing China/Manchus (1644-1911) | -working class women work w/ husband in business or fields -confucianist submission, caring for home and family, other work -cannot inherit or own property -footbinding in upper classes -some fight in women's brigades. Taiping rebellionand 1911 revolution -some educational opportunities at Christian missionary schools -some female infanticide | 26 | |
4430620500 | 1750-1914: Meiji Japan (1868-1918) | -women from home textile production to industrialized silk/cotton mills -poorly paid single women in grim working conditions. -laws reinforced confucian patriarchy, restrictions of political rights -public education encourages girls to be "good wives, wise mothers" | 27 | |
4430620501 | 1750-1914: Latin America | -participated in 1820s independence movements, but no resulting political rights -women owned and operated textile, craft, and food businesses, spin, weave, garden to assist family income -culture of machismo influenced rigid standards of female behavior -primary role as wives and mothers reinforced by catholocism | 28 | |
4430620502 | 1750-1914: Sub-saharan Africa | -participate in resistance to colonial rule -performed 85% of all work -men control cattle and livestock -women aren't threatened by slave trade until late 1800s -men had to migrate away to find work--> bad for family unit -islamic expansion influenced women's roles and rights -some educational opportunities at christian missionary schools | 29 | |
4430620503 | 1914-present: Western Euro and US | -worked in WWI industries, lost jobs after war -won voting rights -prosperity and falling birth rates created more freedoms -1950s: increased educational opportunities, employment as teachers scretatries clerks and nurses -1960s: later feminist movement-access to birth control, rapidly decreasing birthrates, population declined in some countries (but not necessarily unhealthily) | 30 | |
4430620504 | 1914-present: Soviet Union | -rights often meant hard physical labor job for women, then apartment work and children rearing w/ little help from husbands -focus on industrialization and military build-up, few consumer goods, including birthcontrol...about 7 abortions average for married women | 31 | |
4430620505 | 1914-present: Japan | -US occupation, education for women, voting, and other legal rights -traditional culture/patriarchy limited female options in reality -university grads often low pay/status "office ladies" until marriage -focus on household tasks and child rearing, husband worked long hours, little recreational and leisure time activities w/ husband or father -->fewer women marry creating a rapidly falling birth rate | 32 | |
4430620506 | 1914-present: Latin America | -reformers feared that women tied to the catholic church might become a conservative political force so the role of women slowly changed -activist feminist movement and voting rights did not end male prejudice against equal partition of women in political life -by 1980s women were closest to western female patterns than other non western world religions | 33 | |
4430620507 | 1914-present: Women in African and South Asian nationalist movements | -Euro schools in peripheries created educated, articulate and politically active women -full equality after independence not yet reached -super poor education for women -poor sanitation, lack of food, high infant and maternity death rates -male oriented culture -tradition and religious fundamentalism lowered female equality of life and btw genders | 34 | |
4430620508 | 1914-present: communist china | -many worked in new occupations -received legal equality to men after 1949 revolution -some freedom in choosing marriage partners but they were expected to work outside of the home -Mao zedong committed to liberation of women-"women hold up half the sky" -gov efforts to lower pop. by limiting amount of children to one (mostly in urban areas) or two children -many aborted female children so they could have males to carry on the family name, perform family rituals, and take care of the elderly parents - severe shortage of young marriageable women | 35 | |
4430620509 | 1914-present: India | -British outlawed Sati and female infanticide -less education and health care for girls, abortion of female babies, arranged marriages, dowries, dowry deaths continue in rural areas -severe shortage of young marriageable women -quality of life for females in urban areas improved | 36 |