These divisions have been created historically by a capitalist patriarchy that has integrated the whole world into a system of global exploitation and accumulation, at the same time as it has divided people, women in particular. "Maria Mies believes that feminist analysis must transcend the divisions between Western and Third World women.
Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale by Maria Mies Book PDF Summary It was probably appropriate as a solution for the problems of that time, which was the Bronze Age, but it's no longer appropriate, all right? And the reason we find it so hard, and we have found it so hard, to understand it and to combat it, is that it was institutionalized before Western civilization really, as we know it, was, so to speak, invented, and the process of creating patriarchy was really well completed by the time that the idea systems of Western civilization were formed.Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale Author Well, in Creation of Patriarchy I think I show that it was indeed a human invention it was created by human beings, it was created by men and women, at a certain given point in the historical development of the human race.
And in order to understand it I had to understand really whether patriarchy was, as most of us have been taught, a natural, almost God-given condition, or whether it was a human invention coming out of a specific historic period. But women did not, and so that was the question that I really wanted to explore. "Other groups that were subordinated in history - peasants, slaves, colonials, any kind of group, ethnic minorities - all of those groups knew very quickly that they were subordinated, and they developed theories about their liberation, about their rights as human beings, about what kind of struggle to conduct in order to emancipate themselves.
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