PHIL 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Misogyny, Androcentrism, Lysistrata
21 Mar 2017
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Gendered division of labour and sexual segregation in ancient greece. Sexual segregation at the origin of ancient greece women were not allowed to act freely in public: gynaikon: rooms reserved for women to take care of children, food, housework. To cover human needs, 2 types of activities required: production, protection/transformation of goods. Different social status in relation with different uses for men: wives, companions, mistress, prostitutes. In greek culture: presence of impressive female (scary) figures in myths, e. x. Pandora: source of evil because she opened the jar and released all evils into humanity. Hesiod(poetic tradition): women relaxing at home, men are doing hard work. Gender binary and the pyhtagorean table of opposites: good = male, bad = female. Lysistrata: women are fed up with men and decide to go to war: the assembly of women: (cid:396)ei(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial fa(cid:271)(cid:396)i(cid:272)(cid:863) It"s a (cid:272)y(cid:272)le that (cid:272)(cid:396)eates state of ge(cid:374)de(cid:396) di(cid:448)isio(cid:374) Challenges to traditional gender division, gender segregation and sexism.
