1. Patriarchy uses the family unit as the structural units of the society in which the father (or oldest male) is the head of the family. He is responsible for the welfare of women and children in the family unit. The father also has authority over women and uses them for his own benefit. The concept of patriarchy often describes men as the primary responsible of the welfare of the community as a whole as well.
2. The document is a part of Rousseau's novel, Emile, in which he talks about education, difference between sexes, distinct social roles for men and women, and the reasons for fundamental subordination of women to men.
3. He claims that inequality between men and women is not because of prejudice but of reason. He says that nature has designated women for childbearing responsibilities. It is women's duty to bear children, create family bonds, train children, and satisfy male's needs in order to gain his love and faith. He claims that men and women are not the same in character and temperament therefore they cannot have the same education.
4. His arguments are not valid in today’s modern society where men and women both participate in many aspects of social life from economy to military. He has some valid points regarding the importance of women in family structure. I believe he has a point when he says that women are responsible to grow responsible men, but I don’t think that women should train male children to think of women as assets to their happiness and to use women just to satisfy their needs.
5. Although, the tasks for men and women were set accordingly to their genders, but that didn’t cause the women to withdraw from the economical activities. Specifically, after the colonization happened native women’s system of living was mainly based on the old fashioned societies.
6. The slavery factors were stronger in the North than the South and so my understanding is that men slaves were usually the ones working with the crops and in the farms. Women were in charge of doing the house chores, especially childbearing. Women slaves were bond to stay traditional, they weren’t allowed to work outside the home unless under certain circumstances.
7. Residents and especially of white women. Legislation that prohibited marriage between servants, outlawed interracial sex, and prescribed lengthy apprenticeships for the mixed-race children of white women made marriage and sex integral to the imposition of racial as well as class and gender ideologies. Yet sexual unions in North Carolina embodied the contentedness of racial relations in the early South, as men and women made personal choices based on many contingencies, of which racial or ethnic identity was only one, they often challenged emerging proscriptive codes. The widespread incidence of unauthorized unions bespoke the resilience of alternative popular codes and the willingness of ordinary colonists, women and men, to ignore or self-consciously resist official norms.
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Gohar's definition of what a patriarchy is seems to honestly make me laugh a bit. Gohar mentions, “The father also has authority over women and uses them for his own benefit.” First Gohar describes as the men looking out for the welfare of his family and now to having the pleasure over women for his own benefit seems to juxtapose what Gohar is trying to say. I am not saying Gohar is wrong nor right. I am trying to better understand where Gohar is trying to go with the definition of what patriarchy is.
I do agree with Gohar in the third question on how he/she describes on Rousseau’s interpretation of how men and women are not equal and Gohar explains this clearly by stating, “…men and women are not the same in character and temperament therefore they cannot have the same education.” What Gohar means by this is that women are structurally made different for child bearing reasons as a man is made structurally for being protective. I also agree with Gohar on how Rousseau’s argument is not valid in today’s modern society because over time women have shown to be more dominant than men, in a career sense. But Rousseau’s argument is still to me valid in ways of how men and women are biologically structured.
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