The book will add towards some impor- tant dimensions in the area of woman studies. It should be useful for the social scientists in general and specialists of the woman studies in particular, besides the anthropologists and scholars en- gaged in development studies.
It is still debatable as to when and how in human history women were pushed to a secondary position. Engels (1968:569) relates this development with the introduction of private property based on economy of surplus, sometimes at the stage of barbarism, the period in which knowledge of cattle breeding and land cultivation was acquired. "These new techniques brought about an increase in the things which people needed to control for production, especially land, herd, tools and even the slaves, who became important at this stage. These things, therefore, became little by little private property. The new private property would be, according to Engels and Morgan, in the hands of men, unlike the communal property of the gens, which was controlled by women, since they con-trolled the gens; this was because Engels believed that since men would be responsible for production at this stage, it was natural that they would control what was necessary for production' (Bloch, 1983: 56). According to Engels (1968: 569) "The savage' warrior and hunter had been content to occupy second place in the house and give precedence to the woman. The 'gentler' shepherd, presuming upon his wealth, pushed forward to the first place and forced woman into the second place.
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Hindu (892)
Agriculture (93)
Ancient (1022)
Archaeology (614)
Architecture (534)
Art & Culture (859)
Biography (597)
Buddhist (544)
Cookery (159)
Emperor & Queen (494)
Islam (235)
Jainism (275)
Literary (875)
Mahatma Gandhi (380)
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