Abortion among unmarried women became common following the taboo on childbirth, leading to a widespread practice among many races. [1] Primitive women aged very early due to frequent childbearing, fostering polygyny to alleviate the burden. [2]
The taste for human flesh grows from hunger, friendship, revenge, or religious ritual, leading to habitual cannibalism, with primitive mothers once eating their own children to renew strength lost in childbearing. [3]
Before the herding era, mothers nursed their babies for extended periods, leading to increased fertility and reduced infant mortality through the use of cow's milk and goat's milk. [4] Widows committed suicide on husbands' graves to ensure a peaceful afterlife for both. [5] The large families among ancient peoples were not necessarily affectional. Many children were desired because daughters were salable. [6] The degradation of women was one of many reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. [7] The earliest traders were women, who started as spies and eventually became intermediaries in the growing commerce. [8] Early warriors were prohibited from associating with women, marking the first step in the refinement of war. [9]
Women were exempted from war, as the first refinement of combat was taking prisoners and recognizing noncombatants, while standing armies and military castes arose to match the growing complexity of warfare. [10]
Women formed secret societies to prepare adolescent girls for wifehood and motherhood, sanctioning marriage eligibility and attendance at bride shows, while some orders advocated against early marriage. [11]
In ancient societies, girl babies were often killed to limit population growth, along with other practices like exposing sickly or deformed children at birth. [12] Women maintained settled residence to cultivate soil, where they could share their devoted mother love and differentiate male and female activities. [13] Man's first trading was exchange of women, but trading in sex slaves hindered family life and polluted the biologic fitness of superior peoples. [14] Throughout history, women have faced more restrictive taboos than men, particularly when it comes to sex and marriage. [15] In early tribal law, a man could kill his wife without punishment if he had paid for her, but today Eskimos still rely on family for justice. [16] In prepastoral society, women provided vegetable edibles, but the spread of animal husbandry led to their social slavery. [17] During the pastoral age, women were reduced to the depths of social slavery, becoming scarcely more than human animals. [18] Women were chosen as shamans for their role in tending sacred home fires. [19] Some tribes followed the teaching of Onamonalonton with female councils and women rulers. [20] Woman scarcity—an attempt to relieve a shortage of domestic help— stealing women has always caused war. [21]
Through the ages, taboos have confined women to their own fields, while men selfishly took on the more agreeable tasks, but both genders have always worked together on building and furnishing the home. [22]
In ancient times, unmarried women were deemed the property of the tribe's chief or men, evolving eventually to a monogamous system where wives belonged to individual husbands. [23] Women have always been valued as food providers, burden bearers, and means of sex gratification in the evolving social scheme. [24]
Women have historically been viewed and treated as property, slaves, partners, or playthings, showcasing the long-standing struggle for equality and autonomy throughout history. [25]
Among Adam and Eve’s administrators, women were innovatively included alongside men in sharing honors and responsibilities for world affairs. [26] Through legends of Eve and Pandora, women have been historically misunderstood and mistrusted by men, leading to a universal distrust of womankind. [27]
Women were exempt from the temple head tax, as the courts of the temple were profaned by an extensive system of banking and commercial exchange. [28]
Women were not required to attend Passover in Jerusalem, but when Jesus insisted on his mother's presence, a record number of women from Nazareth made the journey, leading to the largest female presence at the feast in proportion to men. [29]
In the Old Testament, women were considered property, reflecting the mores of the herdsmen and their belief in the transfer of ownership from father to husband. [30]
Jesus defied rabbinic teaching by allowing women to teach the gospel on his third tour of Galilee, showing remarkable courage in a time when women were not even acknowledged in public. [31]
Jesus dared to take women as teachers of the gospel on his third tour of Galilee, defying societal norms that forbade even the salute of a man to a woman in public. [32] For women to approach strange men was not deemed proper in those days, but it was Mary's devotion that caused her to forget these restraints. [33]
At a public banquet honoring Jesus and Lazarus in Bethany, women were among the onlookers, despite the custom of the Jews forbidding their presence at such events. [34] Jesus was thoroughly indignant about the unjust discrimination of women being made to sit in the women's gallery of the temple. [35]
The admission of women into full fellowship of the early church marked a decisive factor in the struggle between Mithraism and Christianity. [36]
Andrew’s strict rules upon apostles’ work with women were challenged at Magdala, where ten women evangelists demonstrated their usefulness and vindicated their choosing by winning Mary Magdalene for the kingdom. [37]
Despite the apostles' belief in women's inferiority, Jesus taught them that even so-called immoral women have souls capable of choosing God as their Father. [38]
Paul did not consider women equals, despite the early Chinese and Greeks treating women better than most surrounding peoples and Jesus advocating for their emancipation proclamation in the kingdom of heaven. [39]
Men's historical mistrust and fearful fascination towards women has led to a lack of understanding between the sexes throughout history. [40] The increase in women's rights has led to the evolution of marriage as a loyal partnership equally shared between a man and a woman. [41]
The Koran's teachings on the inferiority of women reflect a historical context of women being treated as property with transferable rights from father to husband. [42] Jesus taught equality between men and women, challenging the discriminatory traditions of his time. [43] Men have no rightful authority over women not voluntarily given. [44] Will modern woman prove worthy of all the new accomplishments achieved in the ideals of pair marriage? [45]
Science, not religion, emancipated women by shifting the foundation of power from physical strength to technological advancements, particularly in the modern factory system which liberated them from homemaker constraints. [46]
Women's rights are not men's rights in the sphere of existence and race reproduction, where woman is man's equal partner in the unfolding of racial evolution. [47] Women rule men on some planets, heralding the dawn of true gender equality. [48]
Women have always shrewdly capitalized on men's stronger sex urges for their own advancement and power. [49]
Compelling mother love is the handicapping emotion that has always placed woman at a tremendous disadvantage in all her struggles with man, despite the natural, instinctive bond between mother and child. [50]
Women desire protection of marriage due to their physical and emotional attachment to offspring, while men were initially drawn to marriage by food hunger and later societal pressure. [51] During primitive times, women did not receive social recognition due to their failure to function in emergencies. [52]
The domestication of the dog alleviated the need for constant guarding, leading to the enhancement of women's social standing and the improvement of their labor methods with the introduction of agriculture. [53] Women are the moral standard-bearers and spiritual leaders, embodying intuition and nurturing wisdom. [54] Women, the moral standard-bearer and spiritual leaders of mankind, possess more intuition but are somewhat less logical than men. [55] Women, as shrewd managers of men, have long utilized their sex appeal to advance their own interests and exercise dominant power. [56]
Eve's inclination towards immediate results unwittingly led her to jeopardize her planetary trust with Adam by engaging in private visits with a Nodite leader, contrary to the Melchizedeks' warnings. [57]
Specialization of labor based on sex has led to women shouldering routine work while men engage in hunting and fighting, with women historically taking on roles as traders and burden bearers in building and furnishing the home. [58] Women's role in society has always been centered around home, where they cultivate the soil and nurture their families. [59]