What Are The Three Realms Of Patriarchy

I believe the statement is true that the concept of patriarchy being a system that regulates not only family but has societal consequences can be examined through religion, politics, and art. These three areas, fields traditionally dominated by men have historically shaped the role a woman will play in society. Through domesticity of women, the lack of social acceptance of women in the courts, and the role of women in religion, patriarchy can be found to impact all aspects of a person's daily life, regardless of status within society. This is shown in the texts: "The Lives of Women in Classical Athens,” "Chapter 6: Sexuality, Art, and Religion," "Chapter 7: Ritual," "Chapter 1: Sex and the Middle Ages," and "Women before the Qadi under the

Patriarchy is the dominant role of the father or eldest male who are known as head of the household and can be traced by their gene pool. In each society labor is regulated by the males. Societal belief is that females should stay around the home while men go out into public. As the text called “Chapter 7” notes “The ideal of generated labor was gradually extended to all spheres of life, and the household came to be looked on as having zones of masculine and feminine space” (Hinsch, 142). There are certain instances where a female can be outside the home. Poor women and slaves have to labor to survive. The text describes “While the wives and daughters of the elite could readily be confined to the inner quarters, ordinary women had to leave the house to fetch water, work the vegetable patch, bring food to men laboring in distant fields, and perform whatever other errands needed to be done” (Hinsch,

Additionally, religion is controlled by men. Women had a lesser role in religion. An example of this is in the text called “Chapter 7” “Women were necessary actors in ritual, but they often participated in ways that marked their inferior status within social and political hierarchies” (Hinsch, 146). Women had to perform religious rituals to her husband’s ancestors and not her own. Which showed that “A woman’s identity was grounded in the kinship system. As family and descendants forgot her, she gradually ceased to exist” (Hinsch,