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2006-10-05 04:26:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Female servitude has different meanings, depending on the culture they are in and the context in which it is used.
For instance in cultures where the male is held in higher regard, females might be sold, given away or used as a bargining tool.
Some believe prostitution is a form of femal servitude as the female is servicing a person sexually for the profit of her pimp, and can be thought of as owned property.
The female might also be in a dominant /submissive lifestye and her role as submissive is then a form of servitude/slavery because she obeys her master /owners commands without question. Many women enjoy this lifestyle.
There is also the traditional marriage for of female servitude in which the woman stays home, takes care of the house children and husband while the husband works and controls the money and takes all responsiblity for paying for and maintaining his home wife and children. The woman will seek the mans permission to spend, buy or go somewhere as he is the head of the house.
2006-10-05 05:00:48 · answer #1 · answered by mommakaye 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Servitude is a negative way of looking at servanthood. Servitude is serving not because you want, rather because you feel you have to. Women are often caught in this when they are the ones doing all the work at home, such as cooking, cleaning, wash etc. It feels more like an obligation. Men get it more when they are working - feeling it is their duty to work and provide. Servitude is a relationship buster - it causes resentment and stills joy. The term servitude comes from when people want to come to this country they would agree to serve as servants to a family until they could repay them for the expenses of bringing them here - what happened is that they were paid so little they could not buy their freedom - therefore they got stuck in a cycle of servitude
2006-10-05 11:40:40 · answer #2 · answered by prwcpa 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
...Telling a woman she is neither the moral nor legal equal of a man is reminiscent of Jim Crow law and culture. It stings as sharply. It anguishes as deeply. It demeans as greatly. The omission of gender persecution as a justification for asylum in the United States is thus morally anachronistic. And it is twice-cursed: males evade stigmatization for demanding female servitude; and, females seeking emancipation from male domination are denied sanctuary in a country whose creed inscribed in the Statue of Liberty is open arms to all yearning to breathe free...
2006-10-05 14:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Echelon could be right but it depends on the context that you are using it in. female servitude can refer to any situation in which women are serving others. although its connotation usually refers to women working for men in various ways.
2006-10-05 11:37:04 · answer #4 · answered by Faz 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Marriage... HA! Although it does involve copious amounts of cleaning, cooking, sex, and child-bearing....
2006-10-05 14:23:02 · answer #5 · answered by Goose&Tonic 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thats the way things should be, skank
2006-10-05 12:35:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
What does it matter? It's an absurd phrase.
2006-10-05 11:34:55 · answer #7 · answered by pat800 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Girl slave - housework, sex - whatever
2006-10-05 11:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Sex
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2006-10-05 11:34:20 · answer #9 · answered by Echelon Right 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋