Gilman

Question 1

How did Gilman understand history?

Answer 1

Moving from simple to complex systems with elements being chose through survival of the fittest

Question 2

Evolution of the human mind gives people the capacity to shape their _____

Answer 2

environment

Question 3

What should people use their capacity of mind for?

Answer 3

Consciously influence evolution

Question 4

Human life is characterized by what?

Answer 4

Creative production

Self-realization and happiness through working with other people

Pain

Question 5

What is humans social environment causing people?

Answer 5

Pain

Question 6

Activities of self-survival

Answer 6

Self-preservation

Question 7

What happens when there is a change in behavior of organism

Answer 7

They engage in greater or lesser use of its organs or capcacities

Question 8

Secondary sex distinctions

Answer 8

Used to attract mates

Question 9

Examples of secondary sex distinctions in humans

Answer 9

Physical- Bear children

Emotional- passion and love

Social- Different activities

Question 10

In societies where women are denied equal workforce paricipaton, what is the primary drive for women?

Answer 10

To attract a man

Question 11

Earliest social groups

Answer 11

Mother and children

Question 12

How are men incorporated into the earliest social group?

Answer 12

Social ties and marriage

Question 13

How did males become dominant?

Answer 13

Economic dependence

Question 14

How is society dysfunctional?

Answer 14

Women are held back from the work place

Question 15

What happens when women are denied participation in the workforce?

Answer 15

Denied interaction with natural environment of species

Question 16

4 Arguments against women being economically dependent on their husbands

Answer 16

1. Earn their share as wives
2. Earn their share from house service
3. Earn their share as mothers
4. Motherhood renders her unfit for economic production and therefore it’s right she supported by her husband

Question 17

What is wrong with the argument that women earn their share as wives?

Answer 17

Don’t economically produce

Question 18

What is wrong with the argument women earn their share from house service?

Answer 18

Part of her functional duty, not employment. Horses do the same. Rich wives do less than poor wives but receive more.

Question 19

What is wrong with the argument women earn their share from being a mother?

Answer 19

If they aren’t a mother they have no economic value at all

Question 20

What is wrong with the argument that motherhood renders her unfit for economic production?

Answer 20

Women work hard in house services