Tag: Patriarchy

Recently  Argumentative Penguin  wrote one of the most disjointed, most chaotic, most non-linear essays I think I’ve ever read on Medium. Normally, I would have simply disregarded it and moved on, but in this particular instance, he had tagged me. In addition, he had put forth ...

It’s broadly believed that a new and more class-stratified, more violent social system arose with the advent of agriculture. Although that certainly played a part, it’s a bit reductive to say that it was the sole cause of the rise of patriarchy, as characterized by male domination and in...

In a feminist’s life, religion will always have an omnipresent (and sometimes nagging) role, especially if one identifies with a religion or grows up in a religious community. It is very tricky to reconcile gender roles and religion because many religions rely on patriarchal structures and the...

I learned about misogyny from my mother. I was seven years old at the time. One day after church, I overheard her and three of the other church mothers discussing my big sister, Temi, how she’d snuck out the other night to attend a high school party and gotten caught up in some “mess&rdq...

Asmost people will be aware, there’s a devastating conflict taking place in Gaza right now. Following brutal attacks by Hamas on the 7th October, in which 1,400 Israeli civilians and military personnel were killed or taken hostage, the Israeli government has responded with a full ...

Remember the alarmists sounding the death knell for the white population of this country and demanding abortion not be made legal in the 1970s? Oh yes, this is nothing new; the white patriarchy started worrying about this country becoming what they called a “minority majority.” It ...

A friend of mine is curious whether matriarchy or patriarchy came first and why. He probably means whether men or women rule the state, but it could also be a question of who rules the household. As far as we know, people have only had written language for less than ten thousand years, and there ...

Many Americans find it difficult to see themselves as a part of social dynamics. They’ve been fed a steady diet of faux individualism their entire lives, and they consequently have a difficult time imagining that they are anything other than an island, with no impact on or responsibility for a...

Recently I had a guest speaker come to class: a Fulbright scholar from Pakistan who specializes in sociological gender studies. I asked her to speak about the impact of economic changes on family life and gender norms. She shared that as industrialization and globalization shape Pakistani society, g...