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Feminist Art History
Feminist Art History BSU test 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
02/07/2017

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Ancient Matriarchies

Paleolithic

Woman of Willendorf

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Ancient Matriarchies

Paleolithic

Woman of Laussel

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Ancient Matriarchies

Paleolithic

Wounded Man and Disembowelled Bison,

Lascaux Cave

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Ancient Matriarchies

Neolithic

Catal Hüyük

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Ancient Matriarchies

Neolithic

Shrine Room from Catal Huyuk

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Ancient Matriarchies

Neolithic

Throned Female Figure Flanked by Lions

from Catal Huyuk

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Matriarchy
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a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
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Patriarchy
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a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line.
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Sympathetic Magic
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primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought. Example: Woman of Willendorf gives you fertility if you keep her close to you
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Ithyphallic
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Figure with an erect phallus, symbol of power, virility dominance over nature

 
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Egalitarian Society
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a society that believes in treating people equally through giving people equal rights and opportunities.
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Master of the Animals
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Human figure (often man) flanked by 2 animals they have dominated, important symbolic image because they have agriculture and control

 
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Ancient Egypt

Menkaure and Khamerernebty

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Ancient Egypt

Ramses and his Wife Nofertari

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Ancient Egypt

Funerary Temple of King Hatshepsut by Senmut

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Ancient Egypt

The Expedition to Punt from The Funerary Temple of King Hatshepsut

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Ancient Egypt

Hatshepsut with Offering Jars from The Funerary Temple of King Hatshepsut

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Ancient Egypt

Hathor Suckling Hatshepsut from The Funerary Temple of King Hatshepsut

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Ancient Egypt

Hathor Licking the Hand of Hatshepsut from The Funerary Temple of King Hatshepsut

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Ancient Egypt

Defaced Images of Hatshepsut

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Ancient Egypt

Bust of Nefertiti

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Ancient Egypt

Portrait of Akhenaten

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Ancient Egypt

Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Daughters

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Matrilineal Descent
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ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines
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Pharaoh
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a king or ruler in ancient Egypt.
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Hatshepsut
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A female Pharaoh that came to power when her husband died and her stepson, the next in line, was only 6 years old and too young to rule
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