On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Janine Maves wrote:

        There are threads in feminist thealogy that apply here:
        perhaps the change from hunter/gatherer to
        agriculture-based society was based as much or more on
        economics and sexual politics as on food sources.  As men
        sought to control paternity, and the notion of private
        property was becoming established, it would have been
        easier to rein in the belongings in an enclosed space,
        rather than in a nomadic lifestyle.  Thus earth as
        provider (goddess culture) was replaced by patriarch as
        provider.  (And women with celiac disease have suffered
        ever since, ha ha!)

We may well ask why men suddenly sought to control paternity, if
they had lacked such control for hundreds of thousands of years.
Why would they suddenly become interested in private property?
It seems more likely to me that the interest in private property
is a consequence of agriculture, since farmers need to control
the land that they cultivate, and the crops that they harvest.

Todd Moody
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