but have numerous liaisons with other men. Researchers to some tribes have been surprised to find on DNA analysis that only half of women's children were from their "strong" husbands, with the other half coming from supposedly "weak" males who were less successful hunting and did not ...
24–25) was incompatible with the reproductive demands of the economic and social elites. Women had to provide their husbands with descendants to ensure their lineage (Holmes 1997, pp. 187–88), not to mention their sexual satisfaction, since it was positively accepted that masculine impulses ...
brother, husband, legal agent, or even son. Married women could not exercise control over their own children without the permission of their husbands. Moreover, women had little or no access to education and were barred from most professions. In some parts of the world, such restrictions on ...