Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Patriarchy
Author(s): Miller Pavla
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138692442
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2017
Series: Key Ideas
Category: Gender Studies: Men