Within seconds of birth, nature condemns females to inferiority with the words “it's a girl”. This statement not only names the biological characteristics that distinguish female from male, but implies the gender of the person through a set of social roles and cultural norms. The ascribed status, "she's a girl", leaves society and the woman with many questions. Do a woman's characteristics derive from "nature" or "culture" or from both? Does society use gender roles to control women and direct their life experiences? Does being born a woman close opportunities for ownership, power and prestige? Has the rise of a patriarchal class society ideologically determined the role of women? Biology is a pseudo-scientific dogmatic propaganda tactic used to make women inferior to the male. Shulamith Firestone in her book The Dialectic of Sex states that "it was the reproductive biology of the woman that explained her original and continuing oppression, and not some sudden patriarchal revolution." (p. 83). Firestone states: "The patriarchal family was only the most recent in a sequence of primary social bodies”....