HeyJaredThe Great Gender Divergence
Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?
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Is Matrilocality Over-Rated? (opens the original)
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If you wander into a Western museum or bookshop, you’ll often encounter stories about a glorious past, where women exercised autonomy, power and agency. However, such accounts are often deeply misleading, omitting the reality of endemic violence.Perhaps the best example of these tensions is Taiwan, before it became Chinese.In the early 1600s, Taiwan’s coastal plains and forested mountains were inhabited by Austronesian villages. Among the Siraya of the southwestern plains a married woman continu
Merchants of Virtue by Divya Cherian (REVIEW) (opens the original)
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Over the 16th to 19th centuries, merchants across the world grew rich from global trade. Did this enable merchants to organize collectively and impose constraints on the executive or did they use newfound wealth to gain status alongside existing elites? How do the effects of trade vary by culture? To answer this question, I strongly recommend Divya Cherian’s Merchants of Virtue. Drawing on the Jodhpur Sanad Parwāna Bahīs (administrative records from the Rathor s
“Behind Bolted Doors”: Arab Debates on Seclusion (opens the original)
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“Despising the woman, a man filled his home with slaves, white or black, or with numerous wives... He imprisoned her in the house and boasted about her permanent restriction.. this has been the status of women in Egypt” - wrote Qasim Amin. Qasim Amin was a Muslim E
"Men are Slaves to the Women Here" (opens the original)
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One could fill a small library with books on historical gender relations in Europe. Yet if I may lodge one small complaint, a revealing set of sources remains underused: non-Western travelers' observations of Europe. Outsiders often pick up on fascinating little details that members of that culture may regard as banal - such as French men surrendering their seats to women.So here’s our line-up:Evliya Çelebi, Ottoman Turkish explorer, born in 1611.<a href="https://www.amazon.com/
What did Indian Women make of Victorian England? (opens the original)
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“Ladies in England hold a very different position to what they do in India”, observed Janakummah Ragaviah (a wealthy woman from Madras). In India, she lamented, “they are held to be inferior [and] are treated by many as slaves to the will and bidding of the male sex”. She and Krishnabhabini Das, from Bengal, accompanied their husbands to England in the late 19th century and published detailed observations. During 8 years in England, Krishnabhabini amassed a litany of complaints - condemning Engl
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