Patriarchy

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ID19907033
AuthorsPavla Miller (0000-0001-7539-7450, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages160
Publication date2017-06-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePatriarchy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315532370
OpenAlexW4256167966
Open LibraryOL53969566M
ISBN9781315532370
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Patriarchy, particularly as embedded in the Old and New Testaments, and Roman legal precepts, has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, maintained, enforced, contested, adjudicated and dreamt about for over two millennia of western history. This brief book surveys three influential episodes in this history: seventeenth-century debates about absolutism and democracy, nineteenth-century reconstructions of human prehistory, and the broad mobilisations linked to twentieth-century women's movements. It then looks at the way feminist scholars have reconsidered and revised some earlier explanations built around patriarchy. The book concludes with an overview of current uses of the concept of patriarchy – from fundamentalist Christian activism, over foreign policy analyses of oppressive regimes, to scholarly debates about forms of effective governance. By treating patriarchy as a powerful tool to think with, rather than a factual description of social relations, the text makes a useful contribution to current social and political thought

Patriarchy · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · General · Patriarcat (Sociologie) · Patriarchaat · Patriarchat · Political science

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