Alice Evans on The Great Gender Divergence
Ideas of India
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The Impact of Pastoralism on Female Sexuality
Women are still economically active in all these different communities, but what they're doing is within the family courtyard. So I think that the pastoral communities will be away for longer periods of time, greater concerns about what women are up to. The other thing which may have some impact is that originally a lot of the trade routes were marine. A lot of the fishing areas are also ports where there are a lot of outside influences of people coming in and bringing in their ideas. It might do the work that urbanization is maybe doing today.
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