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Jiang argues that Eve's creation can invert patriarchal hierarchy because woman is made from flesh while man is made from dust.
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In response to the Pangu question, Jiang says original creator gods should be imagined as asexual, nonsexual, or both male and female because divine creation requires balanced forces.
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In response to the Pangu question, Jiang says original creator gods should be imagined as asexual, nonsexual, or both male and female because divine creation requires balanced forces.
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Jiang says later societies can change a god's gendered traits to reflect hierarchy, so a once-female or balanced creator figure might later become male.
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War begins when population pressure creates discarded young men who raid other societies for women; property, marriage, hierarchy, and male status then rise together.
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Jiang argues the Yahwist was probably a woman because the writing centers domestic tragedy rather than war and conflict.
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Jiang reads Creusa's disappearance or death as Virgil's model of the 'good wife': she removes herself so Aeneas can embrace Rome's future and avoid dishonor.
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Jiang contrasts agricultural societies, where life-giving and harmony made women more important, with violent pastoral society, where protecting cows and fighting made men more important.
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Jiang describes Yamnaya conquest as a gendered violent process in which conquering men killed local men and married local women.
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"fall upon the man the man is lonely he wants a female companion okay and he slept then he took one of his ribs..."
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"they made actual flesh right and that's why we think that the person who wrote this was actually a woman and as you read..."
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"and I have another question is that I don't know how familiar you are with the Chinese culture but in our Chinese culture there..."
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"so it's hard for us to say what the original myth was okay the process is this in the very beginning all myths all..."
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"give it to you okay so that's the mother goddess civilization then we switch to polytheism so why do we make the switch the..."
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"to fight wars they have a god okay and when they go to war they it's like the gods are going to war and..."
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"fight for the men so why okay okay so the question um is why do men go to war and why don't women go..."
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"Okay? They're just propaganda and spin. But the person who wrote the Bible, especially Genesis, was a unique literary genius of the statue of..."
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"He goes back and he's discovered that his wife has killed herself. Why? Because she knows that in this new world that they're going..."
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"If you move from place to place and the cows are eating all the grass, what happens usually? Conflict, right? Because you are now..."
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"So women were more important. But in this society, where there's a lot of violence, there's a lot of conflict, men became more important,..."
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"And what do they do? You have a hundred men and a hundred women in this village. So what do you do? No, yeah,..."
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