WS100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Simone De Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Betty Friedan
24 Jul 2017
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Gender refers to how we are socialised into particular male or female roles in society. The process of socialization acts to define particular responses or behaviours as being appropriate for each sex. Code of hammurabi: this code established the standard on which jurisprudence would operate down into the 19th century ce. The code of hammurabi and others like it, established that non-slave women typically belonged first to their fathers and then to their husbands. Rape was treated as a form of property damage the rapist was required to pay compensation to the husband or father. Even today, the traditional marriage ceremony is a reflection of women as the property of men. The bride is delivered by her father to her future husband. While we no longer interpret this ritual as the exchange of property, the tradition is rooted in the exchange of property. Women"s bodies were judged as inherently different (inferior) from those of men in both quality and value.
