HISTORY

History

History

Introduction

The female figure in Prehistory had a huge weight on societies around the world. There were matriarchal societies, but because the woman did not dominate. By their inexplicable ability to procreate, women were elevated. It was revealed that Women occupied a prime place because of this period have been found female statuettes, paintings and objects, which worshiped women as sacred. The division of labor in primitive societies occurred between the two sexes, being the man hunting and fishing, and the woman gathering fruit, evolving to the culture of the land.

Discussion and Analysis

Women in Ancient Greece

The Classical Period of Greek society was likened to a club of men, because they did not allow women's access to knowledge, devaluing all that concerned her, including beauty. Neither maternity escaped the systematic devaluation, women being seen merely as recipients of male seed. According to Aristotle, it was up to men produce sperm, the efficient cause of generation.

The inferiority of women can be attested by Aristotle's Politics, that the justification for failure fullness in women's rational part of the soul. In Athens, a girl could even marry without dowry, but only in exceptional cases; seems that even the existence of a dowry was the signal that allowed distinction between marriage and legitimate (Jerry & Herbert, 2006).

Woman in Ancient Rome

Women in Ancient Rome had no rights: the division of the sexes in Roman law was a genuine rule of law. The mother was not a figure established or determined. The women had to take care of children and keep the house. The Roman marriage was an agreement between two families: there was no written document, but there was only the presence of witnesses at the time of the agreement. The title was only with the corresponding male paterfamilias for which depended heavily on the marriage. ...