Sally Binford Patriarchy Women

Sally R. Binford expressed at the beginning of the article that women were powerful, free and in control of their lives. They control their fertility as the women’s relationship with their children were relaxed and free however it was interrupted by patriarchal men. Male has controlled the access to historical record and denied of women’s greatness as men denied matriarchal stage in the past. Women could reclaim their greatness by the strength that they gained from knowledge of the past. She discussed matriarchy which the rule by women and patriarchy which is the rule by men. In Western civilization, patriarchy has ruled and continue to rule as the rightful place. Additionally, she expressed that there was flourishing period for matriarchy
in the past.
According to Binfiord, there was matriarchal age that were at least men’s equal and did not faced sexism. She emphasized that there was a matriarchal age that were men’s equal, “I am, however, equally persuaded that if a male anthropologist discovered evidence of past matriarchies, he would publish his findings rather than suppress them. The existence of a past stage of matriarchy would lend support to the thesis that patriarchy is more advance cultural form in evolution; it would also support the notion that matriarchies had inherent weakness that allowed them to be replaced by patriarchies” (147). This supported that patriarchy is more advance and matriarchies had been replaced by patriarchy because matriarchies had implicit weakness as it would give evidence of it. She believed that a male anthropologist would show the evidence of past matriarchies.