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- From: s0xjg@exnet.co.uk (Xavier Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Dworkin (was Re: Liberty)
- Message-ID: <Bzx8MG.uu@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 14:08:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.144024.28676@tc.cornell.edu> <mattm-221292104543@mcmelmon.apple.com> <18220@autodesk.COM>
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- In article <18220@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley) writes:
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- >matri-focal in that children were the sole *property* of the mother.
- >A males closest male realtives were .. brothers born of the same mother
- >( womb-mates ), and your mothers brothers born of the same mother
- >(uncles and cousins).
- >
- >Paternity may or may not have been known about but in either case was
- >not a factor in the social scheme of social inheritance. ( Rhesus monkeys
- >have this same matri-focal social structure BTW) In that culture, women
- >also owned the hearth and home, and men could co-habit the home only at the
- >sufferance of the women. ( in other words when she got tired of him, he got
- >thrown out ) Men not cohabiting with women lived in common *mens houses*
- >or left the tribe looking for adventure or resettlement.
-
- This is a joke, isn't it?
-
- The 19th centuary was filled with myths. I thought that most of them
- had been laid to rest, obviously not.
-
- 1. There never was a noble savage. The cultural primitivism practised
- in the C19 is now projected onto children. Forget it. It never existed.
-
-
- 2. There was never a time when women held power in society as described
- above. As anthropologists circled the world and historians researched
- further and further back it became clear that this 'perfect' state
- of female emancipation was receading further and further into
- prehistory.
-
- The myth is even contradicted by feminist writings.
-
- Xave
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