"Male Supremacism in the United States is a timely editorial collection providing analysis of current patriarchal, misogynistic, and antifeminist threats in the U.S. The book theorizes how male supremacism-the system that disproportionately privileges cis men and subordinates wo…
'Death of the Father' is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe.
In her signature style, revolutionary Mary Daly takes you on a Quantum leap into a joyous future of victory for women. Daly explores the visions of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the great nineteenth-century philosopher, and reveals that her insights are stunningly helpful to twenty-first…
In her signature style, revolutionary Mary Daly takes you on a Quantum leap into a joyous future of victory for women. Daly explores the visions of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the great nineteenth-century philosopher, and reveals that her insights are stunningly helpful to twenty-first…
"This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "nature" is bound up with gender, patriarchy and violence. Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered relationships of domination among hu…
Tackling rape culture: ending patriarchy
by Jordan, Jan
fromVictims, culture and society
"In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we must view rape culture as …
"The election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many--despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about patriarchy that seems to make it so resilient and resistant to change? Undoubted…
Patriarchy and gender in Africa
Introduction -- Ideology, leadership and capitalism -- The impact of industrialization -- The new global economy -- The profit problem -- Solving the profit riddle -- The social case against capitalism -- Liberating the gulag -- Conclusion
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem-"patriarchy"-is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of …