Sex in History
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| of which can be expressed in tabular form as follows:" | of which can be expressed in tabular form as follows:" | ||
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| <tr><td>Rule</td><td align=center> | <tr><td>Rule</td><td align=center> | ||
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| <TR><td align=center>1</TD><td align=center> Restrictive attitude to sex</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center>1</TD><td align=center> Restrictive attitude to sex</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Permissive attitude to sex | + | Permissive attitude to sex |
| </td></tr> | </td></tr> | ||
| <tr><td align=center>2</TD><td align=center> Limitation of freedom for women</TD><td align=center> | <tr><td align=center>2</TD><td align=center> Limitation of freedom for women</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Freedom for women | + | Freedom for women |
| </TD></TR> | </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center>3</TD><td align=center> Women seen as inferior, sinful</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center>3</TD><td align=center> Women seen as inferior, sinful</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Women accorded high status | + | Women accorded high status |
| </TD></TR> | </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center>4</TD><td align=center> Chastity more valued than welfare</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center>4</TD><td align=center> Chastity more valued than welfare</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Welfare more valued than chastity. | + | Welfare more valued than chastity. |
| </TD></TR> | </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center>5</TD><td align=center> Politically authoritarian</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center>5</TD><td align=center> Politically authoritarian</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Politically Democratic | + | Politically Democratic |
| </TD></TR> | </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center>6</TD><td align=center> Conservative: against innovation</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center>6</TD><td align=center> Conservative: against innovation</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Progressive: revolutionary | + | Progressive: revolutionary |
| </TD></TR> | </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center> 7 </TD><td align=center> Distrust of research, enquiry </TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center> 7 </TD><td align=center> Distrust of research, enquiry </TD><td align=center> | ||
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| Inhibition, fear of spontaneity </TD><td align=center> | Inhibition, fear of spontaneity </TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Spontaneity: exhibition</TD></TR> | + | Spontaneity: exhibition</TD></TR> |
| <TR><td align=center> 9</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center> 9</TD><td align=center> | ||
| Deep fear of homosexuality </TD><td align=center> | Deep fear of homosexuality </TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Deep fear of incest </TD></TR> | + | Deep fear of incest </TD></TR> |
| <TR><td align=center> 10</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center> 10</TD><td align=center> | ||
| Sex differences maximised(dress) </TD><td align=center> | Sex differences maximised(dress) </TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Sex differences minimised </TD></TR> | + | Sex differences minimised </TD></TR> |
| <TR><td align=center> 11</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center> 11</TD><td align=center> | ||
| Asceticism, fear of pleasure </TD><td align=center> | Asceticism, fear of pleasure </TD><td align=center> | ||
| Hedonism, pleasure welcomed </TD></TR> | Hedonism, pleasure welcomed </TD></TR> | ||
| <TR><td align=center valign=top> 12</TD><td align=center> | <TR><td align=center valign=top> 12</TD><td align=center> | ||
| - | Father-religion </TD><td align=center> | + | Father-religion </TD><td align=center> |
| - | Mother religion</TD> | + | Mother religion</TD> |
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| + | </TR></TABLE> | ||
| - | </TR></TABLE> | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| **[[Matrism]] | **[[Matrism]] | ||
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- The history of civilization is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful forces of the id, and the various systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them. --Sex in History (1964) -- Gordon Rattray Taylor
Sex In History (1954), analyzes trends in civilization by way of a matrism/patrism dichotomy. "Patrism combines two ideas: hierarchy and discipline. The individual fits into an organizational structure, in which orders come from above, and rules exist to cover almost every kind of situation. In contrast, matrism sees the individual as free from all external compulsions and hence obviously equal to all other individuals, in the sense of having no authority over them, nor recognizing any." Gordon Rattray Taylor Rethink, p 30
Patrism vs Matrism
- "To sum up, then, we may expect to find as limiting cases two
distinct alternative systems of attitudes, the main features of which can be expressed in tabular form as follows:"
| Rule | Patrist | Matrist |
| 1 | Restrictive attitude to sex |
Permissive attitude to sex |
| 2 | Limitation of freedom for women |
Freedom for women |
| 3 | Women seen as inferior, sinful |
Women accorded high status |
| 4 | Chastity more valued than welfare |
Welfare more valued than chastity. |
| 5 | Politically authoritarian |
Politically Democratic |
| 6 | Conservative: against innovation |
Progressive: revolutionary |
| 7 | Distrust of research, enquiry | No distrust of research |
| 8 | Inhibition, fear of spontaneity | Spontaneity: exhibition |
| 9 | Deep fear of homosexuality | Deep fear of incest |
| 10 | Sex differences maximised(dress) | Sex differences minimised |
| 11 | Asceticism, fear of pleasure | Hedonism, pleasure welcomed |
| 12 | Father-religion | Mother religion |
