WOMEN'S SEXULAITY

Shaping of Women's Sexuality from the Antebellum to Present Day

Shaping of Women's Sexuality from the Antebellum to Present Day

Introduction

The role of women from the antebellum to present day cannot be understood without first conducted a retrospective look at the process from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century demanded a new social status for a group, the female, who always used to be stopped side. Women did not participate in the culture, economy or society, a task always reserved to men, on the contrary should be held in the private sphere of home and, if they worked, to a sexual division of labor and class. The war "broke the usual barriers" that kept women isolated from the social and political life "extended the horizons of female opening up new fields' action "by giving them access to areas of public space were previously reserved for men. During the war women performed war intensive work in the trenches, especially on the Republican side, and rear covering basic needs essential for daily living civilian population and developing an important task of training cultural and professional. Dictatorships, reluctant to accept limits on the exercise of its power, always involve a setback for the rights of all, but are even worse for those who start from a situation inequality, as was the case of women (Stowe, 1852).

The role of women was defined according to its essence and natural destination, being a wife, mother and embodiment of values Catholics of the regime. The women were removed, again, the public space and in the private sector were, again, subject the domination of man, so also in this area, which presumably they were of their own, are autonomous. This paper aims to reflect on the role of men, politics, and religion on shaping women's sexuality from antebellum to present day.

Thesis Statement

Men, politics and religion have shaped women's sexuality from antebellum to present day.

Discussion and Analysis

The female gender from the beginning of mankind has had to travel a road filled with obstacles to transcend their status as mother and have the opportunity to participate in society. Her physical constitution is smaller than that of men, kept away from demanding physical exertion activities, tasks reserved for men, which naturally have a more robust structure. Early human groups were organized in a natural way, maintaining this state of affairs without the possibility of alternatives, respecting the power of the fittest. With the dawn of agriculture, the human race abandoned their nomadic life and begins the first settlements near major rivers. At that time, the need for labor to work the land leads women to the fields and end up being in charge of these activities in most communities, while men engaged in hunting wildlife, fishing and care of their territory, leaving the care of children by older children and families are not able to work the land. Meanwhile, with increasing population and the necessity of trade, were born cities and emerging from them a new social class, the bourgeoisie, composed ...