Challenging Patriarchy

Author : Judith M. Bennett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200553

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History Matters by Judith M. Bennett Pdf

Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the past, and she asks her readers to consider what sorts of feminist history can best advance the struggles of the twenty-first century. Bennett takes as her central problem the growing chasm between feminism and history. Closely allied in the 1970s, each has now moved away from the other. Seeking to narrow this gap, Bennett proposes that feminist historians turn their attention to the intellectual challenges posed by the persistence of patriarchy. She posits a "patriarchal equilibrium" whereby, despite many changes in women's experiences over past centuries, women's status vis-à-vis that of men has remained remarkably unchanged. Although, for example, women today find employment in occupations unimaginable to medieval women, medieval and modern women have both encountered the same wage gap, earning on average only three-fourths of the wages earned by men. Bennett argues that the theoretical challenge posed by this patriarchal equilibrium will be best met by long-term historical perspectives that reach back well before the modern era. In chapters focused on women's work and lesbian sexuality, Bennett demonstrates the contemporary relevance of the distant past to feminist theory and politics. She concludes with a chapter that adds a new twist—the challenges of textbooks and classrooms—to viewing women's history from a distance and with feminist intent. A new manifesto, History Matters engages forthrightly with the challenges faced by feminist historians today. It argues for the radical potential of a history that is focused on feminist issues, aware of the distant past, attentive to continuities over time, and alert to the workings of patriarchal power.

Author : Cynthia Enloe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520296893

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The Big Push by Cynthia Enloe Pdf

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. “Sexual harassment” has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy—in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General’s post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance.

Author : Caroline Kioko,Rosebelle Kagumire,Mbalenhle Matandela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9966139818

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Challenging Patriarchy by Caroline Kioko,Rosebelle Kagumire,Mbalenhle Matandela Pdf

Author : Olive Schreiner
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664643865

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Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner Pdf

In 'Woman and Labour', Olive Schreiner offers a unique perspective on the historical and evolutionary roles of women in society. Beginning with an exploration of sex differences in the animal and plant kingdoms, Schreiner examines the primitive, savage, and semi-barbarous states of womanhood before turning to the causes and effects of modern European women's attempt to readjust their societal position. Along the way, she draws on personal experiences and anecdotes to illustrate her arguments.

Author : Kochurani Abraham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030214883

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Persisting Patriarchy by Kochurani Abraham Pdf

This book examines the operational dynamics of patriarchy that is deeply woven into the Indian cultural fabric and its persistence in spite of women advancing in Human Development Indices. In studying the situation of women of the Catholic Syrian Christian community of Kerala, South India, as a case of analysis, Kochurani Abraham identifies caste consciousness and religious prescriptions of this community as the main factors that intersect with gendered identity construction and succeed in keeping women within its patriarchal confines. While women do engage in negotiating patriarchy through what can be termed simulative, tactical, and ‘agensic’ bargains, this remains a ‘politics of survival’ as it does not challenge the established gender order. In this context, making a shift from ‘politics of survival’ to a ‘politics of subversion’ is imperative for challenging persisting patriarchies.

Author : Greta Friedemann-Sánchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cut flower industry
ISBN : MINN:31951P00801803G

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Challenging Patriarchy in the Transnational Floriculture Industry by Greta Friedemann-Sánchez Pdf

Author : Catherine Mich
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781452568126

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Papa and Me! the Perils of Patriarchy by Catherine Mich Pdf

CAUGHT IN THE CONFINING CHRYSALIS OF PATRIARCHY? Five American women candidly share their transformative experiences of moving through the stifling culture of patriarchy out into the fresh air of their uniquely authentic, sparkling selves. The journey may seem long and daunting, but the destination is worth the trip. Making a commitment to the process is the first step of the journey toward being the person you came here to be with all the gifts you possess. You are a piece of good news! Be glad and rejoice in it! • The brave women who share their stories here may inspire and motivate you to reflect on your own life, plumbing your depths for aspirations denied, plans deferred, and intuitions ignored, in the context of patriarchal relationships. • This storytelling process often ignites an individual process unique to each woman who pursues it. The benefits of this process are enhanced by coupling it with a journaling practice. • Should you feel alone in your struggles with the reality of patriarchal relationships, these women aim to point you in the direction for overcoming that feeling of isolation. As a woman, you are one of a multitude of women searching for creative, healthy, freeing responses to patriarchy. You have caring companions and these women are some of them.

Author : Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793642059

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Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Egodi Uchendu,Ngozi Edeagu Pdf

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.

Author : Shefali Roy,Matilda Pereira
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : 9382059628

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Challenging Patriarchy by Shefali Roy,Matilda Pereira Pdf

Papers presented at International Seminar on "Challenging Patriarchy: a Humanist Perspective" held from 26th to 28th October, 2016, at Patna, India organized jointly by Department of Political Science and History, Patna Women's College, Patna University.

Author : Sasha Roseneil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034866635

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Disarming Patriarchy by Sasha Roseneil Pdf

In Disarming Patriarchy, Sasha Roseneil examines the ways in which feminists can resist and transform relations of male domination and female subordination. It is an important contribution to the debates which surround feminism, politics, identity, sexuality and militarism. It is also about one of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century, a movement which galvanized into action hundreds of thousands of women, confronting patriarchal ideas and challenging the foundations of militarism. Disarming Patriarchy is the first in-depth sociological study of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and is an important contribution to the understanding of women's agency and feminist politics, and to the analysis of contemporary social movements. Disarming Patriarchy is important reading for students of women's studies, sociology, politics and international relations and for everyone interested in our recent social history.

Author : Donald E. Hall
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814735374

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Fixing Patriarchy by Donald E. Hall Pdf

The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the metamorphic nature of Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity through an analysis of male authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Kingsley, Thackeray, Hughes, Collins, and Trollope in dialogue with Victorian feminists and other women writers.Synthesizing historical research with pertinent queer, feminist, post-structuralist, and materialist theories, Hall locates both startling admissions of moral fallibility and violent strategies of retrenchment and containment of this perceived threat to the male social body. Fixing Patriarchytraces parallels among Victorian discourses of religion, science, economics, and aesthetics, as it explores a cultural dynamic of un-fixedness and heightened desires for fixity.

Author : Professor Bob Pease
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786992901

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Facing Patriarchy by Professor Bob Pease Pdf

Facing Patriarchy challenges current thinking about men’s violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men’s violence within the structures and processes of patriarchy. Addressing the limitations of current violence prevention policies, Bob Pease argues that a nuanced conceptualisation of patriarchy, that accounts for a variety of patriarchal structures, intersections with other forms of inequality, patriarchal ideologies, men’s peer group relations, men’s sexist practices and the construction of patriarchal subjectivities, is required to understand the links between gender and men’s violence against women. Pease shows that men’s violence against women needs to be understood in the context of other forms of men’s violence, including violence against boys and other men, in the involvement of men in wars and conflicts between nations and men’s ecologically destructive practices which constitute a form of slow violence. With crucial implications for priorities in violence prevention, gender equality promotion and in strategies for engaging men in this work, Facing Patriarchy offers new hope for the elimination of men’s violence. This is an essential book for scholars, practitioners, activists and policy makers involved in violence prevention in national and international contexts.

Author : Gabriele Griffin,Marianne Hester,Shirin Rai,Sasha Roseneil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003824558

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Stirring It by Gabriele Griffin,Marianne Hester,Shirin Rai,Sasha Roseneil Pdf

First published in 1994 Stirring It debates the challenges which confront feminism and Women's Studies in the 1990s. In the face of current worldwide political and social upheavals, Stirring It poses questions about women, their bodies, their identities, and positions which need to be addressed by contemporary feminists. The chapters therefore challenge the orthodoxies and theories which are exploded by contemporary feminist practice. They raise new issues for feminist debate. The volume is divided into four sections: ‘Feminist Politics in Action’ investigates the inter-relationship between politics and action with reference to issues such as the women's movement in Britain and women's position in and in relation to Ireland; ‘Disrupting Sexual Identities’ provides critiques of heterosexuality, monogamy, and conceptualization of the female body; ‘Imaging and Imagining’ explores the politics of women's cultural production and ‘Women's Studies and Feminist Practice’ analyzes the often fraught connections between theory and practice. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of Women's Studies, Sociology, and Gender Studies.

Author : Veronica Fynn Bruey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793638571

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Patriarchy and Gender in Africa by Veronica Fynn Bruey Pdf

This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.

Author : Erin Gibson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781455571888

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Feminasty by Erin Gibson Pdf

From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the "Throwing Shade" podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay. Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn't been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundred million hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They're the white noise of oppression that we've accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants to keep it that way. Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In FEMINASTY-titled after her nickname on the hit podcast "Throwing Shade"-she has written a collection of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that make life as a woman unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that's bold, provocative and hilarious. Whether it's shaming women for having their periods, allowing them into STEM fields but never treating them like they truly belong, or dictating strict rules for how they should dress in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old fashioned sexism, intentional and otherwise, that systemically keeps women down.