Foundations (Prehistory 600-1450 1450-1750 1750-1914 1914-present

– 600 CE)
• Social differentiation • Aztec women, for • The basic Mayan • The latter two • Overall poverty in
in the Andean Chavin example, were social structure was centuries of this time various
society was based on treated as near comprised by kings at period are Mesoamerican
Central location (those in the equals to men, but the helm, priests characterized by the nations still feature
east had lower each had different below them, and Independence Era, as the poor living in less
prestige than those in responsibilities commoners and the societies and than proper
and the west) • Work in Andean slaves at the very governments of conditions
regions was divided bottom various countries
South by men and women; strive for
hunting, military Independence
America service, and gov't
were reserved for
men; textile
production,
agriculture, and the
home were for
women
• • • •
In Egypt, Queen
Hatsepshut was the
Islam strengthens the
repression of women
The Ottoman Empire
was ultimately ruled
• Women in the
In the modern world,
the status of women
Ottoman Empire of
first female ruler in throughout this time by the Sultana and his differs by nation in
the 19th century were
history' period; by 1450 family the Islamic world;
usually not given full
• Men hunted animals/ making women wear • Integration of Saudi Arabia, for
inheritance rights
women gathered and veils and otherwise foreigners (religiously example, is
cultivated food concealing speaking) results in notoriously
• Women in Egypt were themselves in society those qualified to oppressive towards
given high status • Patriarchal families contribute their best women
ere the norm to the Empire
Middle East • Class distinctions
based on money and
rural v. urban
• A freed slave woman,
Rabia, establishes
basic tenets of
Sufism, a mystical
religion emphasizing
one's personal
relationship with God
•
• 1500 BCE = The • 1198 – 1252 = • 1400s CE = Mandukai • 1774 – 1910 CE = • Most communities
establishment of the Sorghaghtani Beki, Khatun, female Revolts, mainly initially low in the
strict Caste system most influential empress of Mongol against British rule, Caste System remain
South Asia (India) woman of mongol Empire by lower castes low today
Empire; assisted
trade and intellectual
exchange
•
•
• 7th century AD =
1920s Bolshevik
governments bring
Adoption of purdah by
equal rights to
Muslims during Arab
women in Central
conquest of present-
Asia
Central Asia day Iran; purdah is
the act of preventing • But, 1991 Fall of USSR
women from being brings female
seen by their spouses oppression back to
(i.e. wearing veils) Central Asia
w/nationalism
 • Chinese philosphy's • 625 – 705 CE = Reign • 1600 – 1868 = during • 1762 = Greater • Beliefs of women's
yin/yang establshed China's only female Tokugawa Shogunate learning for Women is right heavily
natural differences emperor, Wu Zetian (Japan) women's written; proclaims challenged during the
between man and (rules during Tang rights were practically Three Obediences nationalist and reform
woman dynasty) nonexistent within the movements in Japan
• Written c. 45 -120 • Buddhism in Japan samurai family; and China, of the
CE, Lessons becomes grants women always obeyed male twenieth century
East Asia (China/Japan) most durable Chinese empowerment figure (incl. son); • 1868 – 1912 =
source for advice • 960 – 1279 CE = Neo- called Htree Transition to modern
about female Confucianism during obediences nation (Japan) allows
behavior; proclaims Song dynasty in China women to partake in
women should yield further stratifies public participation
to others, among women's position (politics and public
other things • 950 – 1050 CE = speaking)
• Confucianism places During Heian era
women on lower end (Japan) women held
of patriarchal society relative equity in
marriage, education,
and property rights
Southeast Asia • Buddhism gives • ASEAN was formed
(Burma, Cambodia, women various rights, in the 1960s , an
Laos, etc.) incl. Right to remarry, economic
right to inherit, etc. organization
between various SE
Asia nations; also
attempts to protect
social rights