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The History of Women's Repression

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Gar.. if I had to spend ONE more day in Western Civ class hearing about the historical percieved inferiority of women I would have started flippin' table like Jesus in the temple!!

Anyways, I drew this mid-semester, but didn't get time to really touch it up until now, and it's still pretty.. er, I'm not satisfied with it, but it's not worth fiddling with, haha (ignore the gradient backgrounds....). The quotes are actual ones from my textbook, I suppose I should cite it: It's called "Western Civilizations" by Stacey and Coffin.
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The real kicker is, this is MOST common in WESTERN hist classes!  Go to African culture (yes, including Egypt) you'll find le gasp, powerful women leaders!  The Americas? Same deal.  The major exception to this will be the other historically patriarchal cultures in the Asian providence, excludes the Mongolians though, who women had equal standing as men.   It's actually really interesting that most of your western civs, actually means, Rome/Greece culture and how it forced itself upon other European cultures through the ages (try reading up on pre-romans for Europe and wow, how different!)

Having near been a history major I always find it sad that we stress western culture but never anything else, so we're always left to assume these practices are the norm (when at the time they were actually NOT, surprise!  Consider the Mongolians had a larger empire than the Romans, without this sort of cultural repression, and wow! What do you know?).  to be honest I feel like colleges should require NOT western civ, and instead world history, which looks at it from an unbiased view point of this is how this culture believed and behaved.  Sadly I expect too much of educational systems ;w;