Breaking Down Patriarchy
Season One Timeline

10,000 BCE

 
First Agricultural Revolution

Humans change from egalitarian systems to patriarchal systems, where not only is labor divided, but men start to rule women and view them as a means of reproduction

Settlement of Catal Hayuk in Turkey

Many female figurines found in ruins, dwellings indicate matrilocality

7,000 BCE
3000 BCE

First written records 

Code Hammurabi

If a man strikes a free-born woman so that she loses her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss. …If the woman dies, his daughter shall be put to death.

1755 BCE
1,700 BCE

Middle Assyrian Law

“a man may [scourge] his wife, pluck [her hair], may bruise and destroy [her] ears. There is no liability therefore.” MAL 59

Minoan Civilization in Crete

(Snake goddesses, priestesses, co-ed bull jumping, peaceful, nature-loving civilization)

3,000-1,100 BCE
1,200 BCE – 165 BCE

Hebrew Bible written after centuries of oral tradition

Aristotle publishes Politics

“The relation of male to female is by nature a relation of superior to inferior and ruler to ruled.”

350 BCE
2nd Century CE

Canonical gospels written 

Gnostic gospels written

(including Gospel of Mary Magdalene)

2nd-5th Century CE
3rd-4th Century

Mary begins to be worshipped

(regulated by the pope)

In Medieval Europe, the Laws of Couverture gradually develop and are exported all over the world via colonialism

(Women are “covered” by their husbands and lose all legal rights, property, and even distinct identity upon marriage)

1000-1500
1265

St. Thomas Aquinas publishes Summa Theologica

(“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten”)

Hildegard von Bingen publishes Scivias

1142
1405

Christine de Pizan writes The City of the Ladies

Martin Luther publishes (Women… should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.”)

1500
1690

Sor Juana de la Cruz writes to defend women’s right to education

Olympe de Gouges publishes Declaration on the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen

1791
1791

Judith Sargent Murray publishes “On the Equality of the Sexes”

Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Women

1792
1838

Sarah Grimke publishes Letters on the Equality of the Sexes

The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention

1848
1851

Sojourner Truth delivers “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech

John Stuart Mill publishes The Subjection of Women

1869
1892

Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes “The Yellow Wallpaper”  

Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening

1899
1913

Alice Paul organizes the first march in Washington DC for political purposes – a women’s rights parade

(white Northern leaders capitulate to Southern women’s demand that the parade be segregated)

Anna Howard Shaw publishes  “The Fundamental Principle of a Republic”

1915
1920

The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution is published, granting women the right to vote

Alice Paul introduces the Equal Rights Amendment

(The ERA still hasn’t passed)

1921
1921

Margaret Sanger publishes “The Morality of Birth Control”

Virginia Woolf publishes A Room of One’s Own

1929
1931

Virginia Woolf delivers the speech “Professions for Women” at Cambridge University

Eleanor Roosevelt reads “An Open Letter to the Women of the World” at the United Nations

1946
1948

Eleanor Roosevelt presents The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations 

Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex

1949
1963

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique

Title VII of the Civil Rights Amendment is passed

1964
1965

Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood publish “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII” in the George Washington Law Review

Women are admitted to Yale for the first time

1969
1969

Frances Beal publises the essay “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female

Gloria Steinem delivers the speech “Living the Revolution” for commencement at Vassar College

1970
1970

Kate Millett publishes Sexual Politics

The Boston Women’s Health Collective publishes Our Bodies, Ourselves

1970
1972

The US Supreme Court legalizes abortion in some circumstances with Roe v. Wade

The first edition of  Ms. magazine is published

1972
1981

Cherrie Morraga and Gloria Anzaldua edit the collection, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color

Angela Davis publishes Women, Race, and Class

1981
1981

bell hooks publishes “Ain’t I A Woman?”

Audre Lourde publishes Sister Outsider

1983
1990

Naomi Woolf publishes The Beauty Myth

 Laguna Puebla tribe member Paula Gunn Allen publishes The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

1992
1993

The United Nations publishes “The Declaraion of the Elimination of Violence Against Women”

bell hooks publishes Feminism Is For Everybody

2000
2015

The Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges

Mary Beard publishes Women and Power

2018
?

The Equal Rights Amendment is ratified as an amendment to the United States constitution, after ___ years.