Procreation, Production, and Protection: Male-Female Balance in Early Israel

Meyers, Carol

doi:10.1093/jaarel/li.4.569

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“…Archaeological evidence suggests there may be some basis for greater overall self-deception in females with regard to mating success. There are historic and prehistoric examples wherein the sex ratio favored females, disparities attributed to depletion of males through warfare or hunting (Angel, 1971; Meyers, 1983). Given that intersexual competition is frequency-dependent, this would have exerted greater pressure on females and amplified intrasexual competition (Trivers, 2011).…”

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To thine own self be false: Self-deceptive enhancement and sexual awareness influences on mating success.

Lynn

Pipitone

Keenan

2014

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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Over 25 years ago, evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers proposed in the introduction to Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene that self-deception might facilitate otherdeception in intersexual competition and thereby be an unconscious adaptive mating strategy. Self-deception, or the unconscious deception of self through holding beliefs in the face of strong contrary evidence, may facilitate manipulation of others by concealing cues of cognitive load that generally accompany conscious deception. One prediction of this model is that self-deceptive self-promotion benefits mating success. We tested this hypothesis among 107 heterosexual undergraduates, measuring selfdeception using the Self-Deceptive Enhancement scale and two phenotype markerbased measures. Following parental investment theory, we approximated mating success as rate of intercourse partners and partner social status. When controlling for covariates, we found that self-deception predicted intercourse-partner rate and partner status in females only. In males, self-deception did not predict mating success for either variable. These data represent a long-overdue test of Trivers' hypothesis and provide an operational model to be refined for further research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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To thine own self be false: Self-deceptive enhancement and sexual awareness influences on mating success.

Lynn

Pipitone

Keenan

2014

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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“…What the traditional African-South African woman readers of the narration will find amazing with regard to hospitality as revealed in this text is the invisibility and absence of the mother (the Levite's mother-in-law in this case) in the house because hospitality in their context was essentially shown by women. With a woman being the manager, mother and carer in the patriarchal Israelite household (Meyers 1983:569-593), we may speculate that she would probably have fared better in terms of wisdom, compared with the male hosts depicted in Judges 19. However, in the bosadi view of things, both women and men need to be involved in all household chores, including the practice of hospitality.…”

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Without a voice, with a violated body: Re-reading Judges 19 to challenge gender violence in sacred texts

Masenya

2014

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Although they are a majority of the South African population, African women in South Africa remain on the periphery of the margins of our communities. They are women who, although are a majority, mostly remain without a voice. Does it occasion any surprise then that they continue to be the face of violence in our contexts? It is a fact that the present South African landscape is characterised by, among other social evils, the violent acts perpetrated against women and children. That South Africa ranks among the leading countries in the world with appalling statistics on violence against women is well known. Such violence against a section of the South African population is entrenched by, among others, pronounced patriarchies, female voicelessness, dangerous masculinities and violent biblical hermeneutics. The latter hermeneutics is buttressed by some violent sacred texts interpreted in our predominantly patriarchal contexts. The present article seeks, among others, to bring a voice to the muted voice of the pilegesh in the text of Judges 19 by challenging gender-based violence both in the biblical text and in the African-South African context.

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“…Vol. 19 No. 3, Agustus 2014, 207-219 UDC: 305 sebagai perhiasan politik," "perempuan sebagai komoditas politik," "perempuan sebagai objek," "dunia politik, dunianya maskulin," dan "perempuan itu tidak vokal."…”

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“…Di sinilah kenyataan bahwa kita berhadapan dengan teks-teks kitab suci yang sangat patriarkal menuntut para ahli Alkitab untuk berdialog dengan berbagai disiplin ilmu yang dapat memberikan informasi yang tidak ditemukan di dalam laporan kitab suci. 18 Kedua, Meyers berpendapat bahwa alasan penggunaan materimateri dari bidang disiplin ilmu yang lain didorong bukan saja oleh isi sifat Alkitab sendiri yang sangat partiarkal, melainkan juga oleh ketidakseimbangan gambaran yang Alkitab berikan tentang relasi antara laki-laki dan perempuan. Laporan Alkitab tidak saja bersifat androsentris melainkan juga tidak bersifat adil di dalam penggambaran relasi-relasi gender.…”

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The Lost-Sisters in the Public Sphere: a Study of Socio-Theological Christianity on the Roles of Women’s Politics

Mangililo

2014

j. peremp.

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The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of Indonesian Christian women in the public sphere, especially in the realm of politics. This article aims to reconstruct the role of Israelite women who lived in pre-monarchic Israel using sociological, social science, anthropological, and archeological methods. The result of my analysis shows that the demands of war that occurred continuously in the territory of ancient Israel and the opening of new land in the mountainous regions of Israel required the active participation of women to not only be involved in the reproduction but also the production–an activity that belonged to male members of the family. This phenomenon creates a balance in the division of labor between men and women which of course increased the status of women in society. The result of this reconstruction that underlines the active role of women in the public sphere in the world of ancient Israel becomes an important model for Christian women in Indonesia today to take an active role in the public sphere, especially in politics.

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Procreation, Production, and Protection: Male-Female Balance in Early Israel

Cited by 28 publications

References 17 publications

To thine own self be false: Self-deceptive enhancement and sexual awareness influences on mating success.

To thine own self be false: Self-deceptive enhancement and sexual awareness influences on mating success.

Without a voice, with a violated body: Re-reading Judges 19 to challenge gender violence in sacred texts

The Lost-Sisters in the Public Sphere: a Study of Socio-Theological Christianity on the Roles of Women’s Politics

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