The advent of private property converted woman from sacred being into owned property

Evidence

In particular, when he acquires ownership of land, he also claims woman as property. Formerly he was possessed by the mana, by the earth: now he has a soul, property; freed from Woman, he now lays claim to a woman and a posterity of his own. He wants the family labor he uses for the benefit of his fields to be totally his, and for this to happen, the workers must belong to him: he subjugates his wife and his children. He must have heirs who will extend his life on earth because he bequeaths them his possessions, and who will give him in turn, beyond the tomb, the necessary honors for the repose of his soul. The cult of the domestic gods is superimposed on the constitution of private property, and the function of heirs is both economic and mystical. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 167

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Engels’ account of the origin of the family and private property, which Beauvoir is revising here. — connects to: Sedentary agriculture gives motherhood sacred status because property demands heirs — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 161; The institution of inheritance causally produced woman’s subordination to man’s property — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 182; In feudalism woman functioned as property transmitting land to men — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The institution of inheritance causally produced woman’s subordination to man’s property #expands (0.92) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 182
• In feudalism woman functioned as property transmitting land to men #exemplifies (0.88) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 207
• The epiklerate reduced female heirs to procreative tools preserving patrilineal property #exemplifies (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 189
• Biblical-era women were property bound to male kin and taboo-burdened #exemplifies (0.80)
• Germanic customary law subjugated women yet guaranteed them property rights #qualifies (0.78)
• Nineteenth-century prosperity shifted white women’s image from temptress to pure goddess #qualifies (0.75) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 95