Women’s Rights and Women’s Rites: Religion at the Historical Root of Gender Stratification
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This paper argues that our sociological explanations of the historical advent of gender stratification in the Occident has given too much attention to techno-economic causes and too little attention to religious, cultural and ideological causes. Evidence for this claim is taken from archeology, mythology and anthropology for the relevant historical period (4500 and 3000 BC) in Eurasia. I assert that the observed decline of gender equality resulted when techno-economic changes collided with religious and cultural transformations; thus, our theories should expand to include religion, culture and ideology. Part One Religion at the Historical Root of Gender Stratification
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