Women In Patriarchal Society In The Early Mesopotamia's Society

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The whole concept of a patriarchal society came about during the early Mesopotamian era, they believed that: “The husband and father made all the key decisions, and the wife gave humble obedience to this male authority. Patriarchal family structure rested on men’s control of most or all property, starting with land. Marriage was based on property relationships, and it was assumed that marriage and therefore subordinate to men was the normal condition for woman. (Woman in Patriarchal Societies, 42)” The roles that men have played throughout history haven’t changed much, men have always been at the top of the food chain. It is the men that have always had the upper hand when it came to what woman get. While studying history this semester I have …show more content…

Upper-class woman living in poleis were allowed to venture outside with some type of chaperone and were required to wear some type of veil to prevent the attention of males from other families. Woman didn’t have the freedom to live a normal life as we do today. The only way a girls in Greece was able to obtain a proper education in Greece was if their families had a lot of landholdings, but much of the lower class families were unable to provide their girls with an education because they couldn’t afford their daughters not helping around with the household duties. This may not be a big example of a patriarchal society but it could be depending on how you look at it. Education should be available for all children, male or female, and with education being so hard to obtain because of the cost is only making girls more naïve to what they could actually accomplish. With girls not getting an education it makes them more vulnerable to fall under the authority of a well-educated male. If the cost of education either lowered or diminished entirely girls would be able to gain the knowledge to grow into a strong and smart individual woman who doesn’t need to rely on a man during their adult

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