When agriculture turned creative, man claimed generative power over both land and heirs

Evidence

Thus, the day agriculture ceases to be an essentially magic operation and becomes creative labor, man finds himself to be a generative force; he lays claim to his children and his crops at the same time. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 167

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This reworking of the shift from magical to creative agriculture parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ theme of human-technical transformation of nature, though through a gendered-patriarchal lens.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial power was symbolically encoded as masculine mastery over a feminized land — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 619

Broader Connections

• Colonial power was symbolically encoded as masculine mastery over a feminized land #expands (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 619