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What is the theory on the root of women's oppression?
What is the theory on the root of women's oppression?
- The progression of male-centric to female-centric worship
- The progression of female-centric to male-centric worship (correct)
- The worship of male genitals
- The worship of female genitals
What was the status of women threatened by around 1500 BC?
What was the status of women threatened by around 1500 BC?
- The expansion of phallus worship (correct)
- The expansion of goddess worship
- The expansion of mother-goddess worship
- The expansion of female-centric worship
What is a goddess-based social organization?
What is a goddess-based social organization?
- A community that conducts male generative organ worship
- A community that tends to believe in the appearance of female deities
- A community that worships women as deities (correct)
- A community that believes in the prevalence and destruction of female deities
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- The progression of female-centric to male-centric worship is one theory on the root of women's oppression.
- Women were less valued and their status was threatened with the expansion of phallus worship around 1500 BC.
- The first great gods of early civilizations were women.
- In some ancient civilizations, men's penises were carved out into vaginas to seize the powers of the goddess.
- Goddess-based social organization is a community having a belief and practice of worshipping woman as deity.
- Phallus cult is a community that conducts male generative organ worship using realistic representation or symbols for ceremonies.
- Mother-goddess cult is a community that tends to believe in the appearance of female deities and their prevalence, as well as destruction.
- Women's religion also influenced the negative perception of women as evidenced in the Judeo-Christian story of Eve being the first woman and its mythic many variations.
- Men changed their perspectives due to a focus on the empirical, rather than the mythical.
- Different myths are made to satisfy the culture present in a certain place.
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