Spain on the other hand felt that the native people were not using the land to it's full potential. It was their obligation to put the land to better use. Through the generations of colonization and invasion, both the Spanish Empire and the native people met several ups and downs. Spain initially conquered many of the Natives such as the Aztecs and the Pueblos. Eventually the Pueblos blamed the Spanish for their hardships and misfortunes because of the fact that the Spanish had, in a sense, outlawed their ancient rituals and ceremonies.
The Spainards legitimized their rule by enforcing the church and its values tO the inferior population by converting them in effort to cease and integrate them to Spanish life. Describe the social hierarchy of the American colonies. Through sexual exploitation, many Indians were forced into a complicated social system. At the top of the hierarchy were the European whites, or peninsulares, then the mestizo mix of a European and Indian. What was the nature of the eighteenth-century reforms in Portuguese and Spanish colonies?
Assignment 1a: Beliefs in Society ”Religion is more a cause of conflict than of harmony in society.” To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence support this view? (33 marks) Feminists agree that religion serves to maintain the status quota, however they believe that means maintaining patriarchy. Feminists most religions as patriarchal, meaning that religion is 'male dominated', they also view religion as actively oppressing women in order to maintain patriarchy. Examples of this include Aldridge's (2007) findings in the Qur'an, noting that women are legally inferior to men and lacking the same rights as their husbands. This example can be seen by feminists as maintaining patriarchy in society so that women have less or different rights to men, meaning that men have more freedom to do what they want, while women are observed much more closely.
Chloe Freeman 20th November 2011 Chloe Freeman 20th November 2011 The ideas and themes I get from the reading this the extract from The Wife of Martin Guerre are of gender identity and of the oppression of women in the patriarchal society of the 1960s. Gender roles played an important part in the structure of the society of the 1500’s, which instigated many problems concerning the male authority of the Guerre family. Males were seen to have power that was unquestionable by anyone as that was the way their society was built, without questioning of roles and hierarchy that made up the values and beliefs of the town. “The anger of Monsieur Guerre was terrible, as she had known it would be, and she was thankful that Martin’s shoulders were beyond the reach of his father’s heavy whip.” This passage is an insight of the way that men’s roles affected the function and order of a family’s name. “ Apprehensively Bertrande listened to the approach of every passer-by, started and turned cold each time the door to the house creaked.” With the disappearance of Martin the threat to the family’s name and honour is seen, by the way in which family members, in particular Bertrande deal with the criticisms.
There were great differences as well as similarities in the impact of interactions by the Spanish to both the Colonial Spanish-America and the Ottoman Empire. The Spanish had a much more overpowering impact to the Colonial Spanish-America seeing as to the many changes that left the native culture disappearing or fading while the conquerors dominated, unlike in the Ottoman Empire. A social hierarchy was formed based on race as the native and non-native people mixed. The only class to hold high government power was those who were born in Spain which shows their dominance. This left the Native Americans and Africans in the bottom of the hierarchy while being denied many economic opportunities.
All that chaos contributed to the male chauvinism we see in our current society. Women had to handle that change without any moral support. It is also important to remember the important role women took in both world wars. A “Jury of Her Peers”, demonstrates how hard marriage was for all women who did not enjoy their relationships. Women in those types of relationships were treated as objects instead of being valued as women of freedom which represent intelligence, compassion, love and beauty.
Many people can bring these stereotypes down on Eve, as they think she is the cause for the way that women are in the world today. She is blamed for the reason why women act the way they do. For centuries, this has been known as “Eve’s Curse”. Women are usually viewed as inferior to men, especially in the Middle East and most parts of Asia. Women are perceived to have more flaws and faults.
HY203-007 Will Rall Women’s Rights in 19th Century America The early 19th Century ushered in a new era of liberties and freedom. Although the United States Constitution stated that all man is created equal, it seemed to leave out women. Women were always seen as inferior to man because of their lack of education, masculinity and political knowledge. Women’s rights only seem to get worse after the Revolution, as America’s political parties started to gain national power. In Sarah Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes we can see that she supports Rosemarie Zagarri’s Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic book, because of the views they shared about religion and women’s rights.
Joshua Kleinwaks Period 5 12/20/12 Womens Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: by Sanja Kelly Throughout the history of humanity, women have been considered subordinate to men. Understandably for evolutionary reasons however when civilization rose and flourished, they were still viewed the caretakers and inferior to men whether in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa. All of this lack of rights are of varying degrees for women but the one of the worst regions in the world where Women's rights are very much indeed lacking is in the Middle East, as well as North Africa. These two regions have always been in strife, often in conflict with in each other and as I see, the Middle East isn’t just full of oppression but of constant battle between Liberals, especially composed of womens rights NGO’s versus Conservative Islamists and Salafists.The editor in the book itself giving details of the history of women's rights in every country to its current progress, whether in Autonomy, Political rights, social status, and economics rights of women and gives credit to multiple authors and cited sources for her detailed report for every country detailed. The book I admit had some flaws but not to do with content as well as grammatical errors which surprised me as some words were either broken or actually put together wrongly.
These often times not only include gender but also race, even attire depicted through artwork. Ruether suggests this problem still persists because while prophets were aware of the rich oppressing the poor, they did not recognize their own oppression over women and slaves.4 Also, that it was hard to see women as a secondary gender when there were women in power roles such as queen.5 Male monotheism has become so dominant in Western culture that even ancient Hebrew myths have been altered to show male dominance.6 The problem with God being given primarily male qualities is that it creates a gender bias and symbolic hierarchy of God—Male—Female.7 This implies that women no longer stand in direct relation to God and must obtain a relationship to God through a man.8 This