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| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The Gender Knot Allan G. Johnson, 2005 A compelling approach to gender inequality that empowers both men and women to be part of the solution instead of just part of the problem. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Privilege Power And Difference Allan G. Johnson, 2017 |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Patriarchy and the Politics of Beauty Allan D. Cooper, 2019-10-04 Patriarchy has been justified by philosophies of beauty, but such paradigms have come into conflict with contemporary international law governing human rights. This book analyzes how feminist philosophy has undermined dualistic notions of sexual identity, and is transforming human consciousness. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The First Thing and the Last Allan G. Johnson, 2010 In the middle of a horrific night, Katherine Stuart barely escapes being murdered by her abusive husband in the kitchen of their suburban Boston home. In the aftermath of utter loss and devastation, Katherine is sought out by Lucy Dudley, an elderly woman living on a family farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, who reads about Katherine in the news and is drawn to her by a closely guarded history of her own. Katherine, unable to bear the accusing eyes of her family, accepts Lucy's invitation to come to Vermont, setting in motion a deepening relationship between the two women that frames a universal struggle to heal and reclaim what severe trauma takes from people's lives.--Page [2] of jacket. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe, 2015-11-17 In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights that gender is a field of domination, not a field of play, and that manhood is fundamentally about exerting or resisting control. Manhood Acts arrives at the conclusion that abolishing gender as a system of oppression will require more than transgressive self-presentation. It will be necessary to end the exploitive economic relationships that necessitate manhood itself. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Proving Manhood Timothy Beneke, 1997 Essential reading for understanding the modern American man and his struggle with the women in his life. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Readings for Diversity and Social Justice Maurianne Adams, 2000 These essays include writings from Cornel West, Michael Omi, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua and Michelle Fine. The essays address the multiplicity and scope of oppressions ranging from ableism to racism and other less-well known social aberrations. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Introduction to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara L. Shaw, Heather Rellihan, 2025-01-13 . |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Gyn/Ecology Mary Daly, 2016-07-26 This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author. Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this Thunderbolt of Rage that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical Feminism in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Man Made Language Dale Spender, 1985 Synopsis: One of the great classics of the women's movement, Man-Made Language opened our eyes to the myriad ways in which the rules and uses of language promote a male, and so inherently partial, view of the world. Often imitated, never replaced, Man-Made Language has become a cornerstone of modern feminist thought. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa Shireen Hassim, 2006-06-26 The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women’s movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women’s political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists’ engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women’s organizations. She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization. Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association “An exceptional study, based on extensive research. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “A rich history of women’s organizations in South African . . . . [Hassim] had observed at first hand, and often participated in, much of what she described. She had access to the informants and private archives that so enliven the narrative and enrich the analysis. She provides a finely balanced assessment.”—Gretchen Bauer, African Studies Review |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Gendered Worlds Judy Root Aulette, Judith G. Wittner, Kristin Blakely, 2009 In Gendered Worlds, the authors use the sociological imagination to explore gender relations throughout the world. They look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally; examine the impact of globalization on local and everyday life experiences;and identify how local actors re-imagine social possibilities, resist injustice, and work toward change. Integrating theory with empirical studies that are of particular interest to college students-including research on violence, sports, and sexuality-the authors make gender concepts genuinelyinteresting and accessible. They also demonstrate how students can think critically about gender, both within and beyond the classroom.Each chapter begins with an opening scenario about an individual experience of gender, and then traces how macro-level factors shape that micro experience. A section entitled Gender Matters follows each chapter to summarize the micro-macro connection. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Critical Theory Today Lois Tyson, 2006 This new edition of the classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory. It provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African-American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading. This book can be used as the only text in a course or as a precursor to the study of primary theoretical works. It motivates readers by showing them what critical theory can offer in terms of their practical understanding of literary texts and in terms of their personal understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Both engaging and rigorous, it is a how-to book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The End of Patriarchy Robert Jensen, 2017 The End of Patriarchy asks one key question: what do we need to create stable and decent human communities that can thrive in a sustainable relationship with the larger living world? Robert Jensen's answer is feminism and a critique of patriarchy. He calls for a radical feminist challenge to institutionalized male dominance; an uncompromising rejection of men's assertion of a right to control women's sexuality; and a demand for an end to the violence and coercion that are at the heart of all systems of domination and subordination. The End of Patriarchy makes a powerful argument that a socially just society requires no less than a radical feminist overhaul of the dominant patriarchal structures. |
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| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Making Gender, Making War Annica Kronsell, Erika Svedberg, 2011-09-08 Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both men and women, masculinity and femininity. The war question for feminism marks a thematic red thread throughout; it is a call to students and scholars of feminism to take seriously and engage with the task of analyzing war. Contributors analyze how war-making is intertwined with the making of gender in a diversity of empirical case studies, organized around four themes: gender, violence and militarism; how the making of gender is connected to a (re)making of the nation through military practices; UN SCR 1325 and gender mainstreaming in institutional practices; and gender subjectivities in the organization of violence, exploring the notion of violent women and non-violent men. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Women's Lives Gwyn Kirk, Margo Okazawa-Rey, 2007 This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies by examining U.S. women's lives in a global context and across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide updated statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the readings. Each chapter includes Questions to Frame Your Reading and “Suggestions for Taking Action” to help students link their knowledge and understanding to their own lives and apply it to the world around them. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Critical Race Theory Norma M. Riccucci, 2022-03-17 This Element explores Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its potential application to the field of public administration. It proposes specific areas within the field where a CRT framework would help to uncover and rectify structural and institutional racism. This is paramount given the high priority that the field places on social equity, the third pillar of public administration. If there is a desire to achieve social equity and justice, systematic, structural racism needs to be addressed and confronted directly. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is one example of the urgency and significance of applying theories from a variety of disciplines to the study of racism in public administration. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Gender and Everyday Life Mary Holmes, 2008-07-23 Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures; Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender. Key sociological and feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan. This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender studies, sociology and feminist theory. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: From Where We Stand Cynthia Cockburn, 2008-02-29 This original study examines women's activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel addressing racism and refusing enmity and describes international networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called 'war on terror'. These movements, though diverse, are generating an antimilitarist feminism that challenges how war and militarism are understood, both in academic studies and the mainstream anti-war movement. Gender, particularly the form taken by masculinity in a violent sex/gender system, is inseparably linked to economic and ethno-national factors in the perpetuation of war. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The Anthropology of Food and Body Carole M. Counihan, 2018-10-24 The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The Sexual Politics of Meat (20th Anniversary Edition) Carol J. Adams, 2010-05-27 > |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Rereading America Gary Colombo, 2007 Intended as a reader for writing and critical thinking courses, this volume presents a collection of writings promoting cultural diversity, encouraging readers to grapple with the real differences in perspectives that arise in our complex society. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: History Matters Judith M. Bennett, 2010-11-24 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. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Paradoxes of Gender Judith Lorber, 1994 This feminist works draws from a wide range of critical, social and historical research to suggest that today's gender system is a constructed institution - designed to produce a subordinate class (women) to be exploited as workers, sexual partners, childbearers, and nurturers. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Vinegar Tom Caryl Churchill, 1982 The play examines gender and power relationships through the lens of 17th-century witchcraft trials in England. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Jewish/Christian/Queer Mr Frederick Roden, 2012-12-28 At a time when major branches of Judaism and most Christian denominations are addressing the relationship between religion and homosexuality, Jewish/Christian/Queer offers a unique examination of the similarities between the queer intersections of Judaism and Christianity, and the queer intersections of the homosexual and the religious. This volume investigates three forms of queerness; the rhetorical, theological and the discursive dissonance at the meeting points between Christianity and Judaism; the crossroads of the religious and the homosexual; and the intersections of these two forms of queerness, namely where the religiously queer of Jewish and Christian speech intersects with the sexually queer of religiously identified homosexual discourse. Including essays on literature and literary theory, Christian theology, Biblical, Rabbinic, and Jewish studies, queer theory, architecture, Freud, gay and lesbian studies and history, Jewish/Christian/Queer will have a truly interdisciplinary appeal. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Challenging Patriarchy Caroline Kioko, Rosebelle Kagumire, Mbalenhle Matandela, 2020 |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality Michael Flood, Richard Howson, 2015-06-18 Men's roles in building gender equality are currently on the public agenda. Across the globe, there are growing efforts to engage men and boys in building more equitable relations with women and girls. Programs that engage with men have proliferated in fields such as violence prevention, sexual and reproductive health, parenting, education, and work. The last decade has seen the emergence of national and global campaigns, initiatives by international agencies, and scholarly research. Engaging ... |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies Christie Launius, Holly Hassel, 2022-03-30 Threshold Concepts in Women's and Gender Studies: Ways of Seeing, Thinking, and Knowing is a textbook designed primarily for introduction to Women's and Gender Studies courses with the intent of providing both a skill- and concept-based foundation in the field. The third edition includes fully revised and expanded case studies and updated statistics; in addition, the content has been updated throughout to reflect significant news stories and cultural developments. The text is driven by a single key question: What are the ways of thinking, seeing, and knowing that characterize Women's and Gender Studies and are valued by its practitioners?. This book illustrates four of the most critical concepts in Women's and Gender Studies--the social construction of gender, privilege and oppression, intersectionality, and feminist praxis--and grounds these concepts in multiple illustrations. Threshold Concepts develops the key concepts and ways of thinking that students need to develop a deep understanding and to approach material like feminist scholars do, across disciplines. . |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Counting for Nothing Marilyn Waring, 1988 |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Man's World, Woman's Place Elizabeth Janeway, 1971 An examination of the social and psychological forces in our society which affect the position of women and have given birth to the current drive for equal rights. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The Gender Knot Allan G. Johnson, 2005 The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is (and isn't), how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something about it. Johnson's simple yet powerful approach avoids the paralyzing trap of guilt, blame, anger, and defensive denial that often result from conversations about gender. He shows how we all participate in an oppressive system we didn't create and how each of us can contribute towards its dissolution. He argues persuasively that something much better is possible and that our individual choices matter more than we can ever know. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: America's Working Women Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall, Linda Gordon, Susan Reverby, 1976 A history of working women in our country from the colonial period to the present told in excerpts from original sources. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: The Essential Feminist Reader Estelle Freedman, 2007-09-18 The definitive anthology of feminist writing, this collection presents the true history of feminism within both global and historical frameworks, and provides a vital addition to the field. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Gender Basics Anne Minas, 2000 This highly accessible combination of articles with readable and teachable supporting introductions and text enables students to understand assigned readings well enough to be able to come to class ready to ask intelligent questions and engage in critical discussion. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Patriarchy Matters Lyn Mikel Brown, 2004 |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Systems of Privilege Kim A. Case, Jonathan Iuzzini, Sheri R. Levy, 2012-04-17 This issue explores conceptualizations of various forms of privilege and the psychological and behavioral consequences of privilege with an emphasis on policy implicatiosn and intersectionality. The contributions focus on theoretical advances and the integration of science and action in order to extend our current understanding of privilege. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Mascupathy Charlie Donaldson, Randy Flood, 2014-06-01 Men often behave badly, and it's easy to assume that's just the way they are. Some can be grandiose and aggressive; many others are good guys but emotionally absent and relationally disappointing. Psychologists Charlie Donaldson and Randy Flood contend, however, that most men's behavior is neither capricious or malevolent, but a product of a socialized disorder mascupathy - an exaggeration of the genetically masculine traits (aggression and invulnerability) and minimal expression of inherently feminine characteristics (openness and sensitivity). Committed to helping men achieve rich, engaged lives, the authors propose a revolutionary way to think about men. Mascupathy shines a bright light of understanding, revealing unexpected transformations of men in stirring clinical accounts. This is an eye, mind, and heart-opening book full of compelling reasons to feel optimistic about the future of men and the people who love them. |
| patriarchy the system allan johnson: Otherwise, Revolution! Rebecca Tillett, 2018-03-08 Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit discourses of imperialism, patriarchy, religion, medicine, science and technology. Almanac's exploration of multiple forms of dispossession and resistance is most fully embodied in the two Armies of Justice, who are devoted to overturning oppression in all forms and to the restoration of social and economic justice. Reading Almanac in the light of the global economic recession of 2008, this study assesses the ways in which Almanac's vision of oppressive capitalism continues to have absolute relevance. Perhaps most importantly, this study provides a groundbreaking reading of Almanac for the 21st century, comparing Silko's activist armies with recent international popular social justice activism such as the Arab Spring, the international Occupy movement, and the Indigenous Idle No More movement. |
Patriarchy - Wikipedia
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a …
Patriarchy | Gender Roles, Power Structures & Oppressi…
May 15, 2025 · Patriarchy, hypothetical social system in which the father or a male elder has absolute authority over the family group; by extension, one …
PATRIARCHY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PATRIARCHY is social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and …
What is patriarchy? What does it mean and why is everyone ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Derived from the Greek word patriarkhēs, patriarchy literally means "the rule of the father" and is used to refer to a social system …
Patriarchal Ideology Explained - Simply Psychology
Feb 13, 2024 · Patriarchy is a social system in which men are thought to hold positions of power in both the public and private spheres. Women, …
Patriarchy - Wikipedia
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of authority are primarily held by men. The term patriarchy is used both in anthropology to describe a family or clan controlled by the father or …
Patriarchy | Gender Roles, Power Structures & Oppression ...
May 15, 2025 · Patriarchy, hypothetical social system in which the father or a male elder has absolute authority over the family group; by extension, one or more men (as in a council) exert …
PATRIARCHY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PATRIARCHY is social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and …
What is patriarchy? What does it mean and why is everyone ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Derived from the Greek word patriarkhēs, patriarchy literally means "the rule of the father" and is used to refer to a social system where men control a disproportionately large …
Patriarchal Ideology Explained - Simply Psychology
Feb 13, 2024 · Patriarchy is a social system in which men are thought to hold positions of power in both the public and private spheres. Women, on the other hand, are believed to be in less …
How did patriarchy actually begin? - BBC
May 30, 2023 · By deliberately confining people to narrow gender roles, patriarchy disadvantaged not just women, but also many men. Its intention was only ever to serve those at the very top: …
PATRIARCHY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
PATRIARCHY definition: 1. a society in which the oldest male is the leader of the family, or a society controlled by men…. Learn more.
