Author: Ajit Jha Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668617872 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 11
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Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: 9.3, University of Delhi (Anthropology), language: English, abstract: This essay is about the role of women in patriarchal societies all over the world. The theme of women in literary and scholarly narratives is all pervasive. It is notable that women all over the world and especially in patriarchal societies as well occupy an exalted role defined by their gendered identity as for instance tea practices in Mongolia with an opportunity for them to generate differentiated power, female celebrations in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan where their symbolic identity with cosmology is highlighted, on occasions when female deities under water are invoked to protect fishermen, and in several nations, cities, and villages where virgin Mary is sought as a protectress.
Author: Harriet Holter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 252
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This collection of articles presents various types of analysis of the position of women in Norweigan society and focuses on such current themes in women's studies as the relationship between production and reproduction, and the nature of patriarchy in Western societies.
Author: Mary Murray Publisher: Taylor & Francis US ISBN: 9780415042574 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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In The Law of the Father? Mary Murray develops a new perspective on the class-patriarchy relationship. Women's rights in and to property are explored in pre-capitalist and capitalist society. Exploring the links between kinship, property and patriarchy as symbiotic and fundamental to the development of the English state, the relationship between women, property and citizenship is seen as central to the 'Law of the Father' and the transition to a 'capitalist fraternity'. The book maintains a general link between property and the legal regulation of sexual behaviour. The author criticizes the view that women themselves have been property, arguing that it rests on a historically specific concept of history projected back in history, where no such concept existed and reflects changes in ways of thinking about property which emerged in the course of the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
Author: Miriam M. Johnson Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520061620 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 368
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"For years I have been impressed by the originality and insight of Johnson's articles on gender, sexuality, and male dominance. This book continues and expands the excellent quality of the earlier work. . . [It] provides an original argument about the central structural locus of gender inequality, and makes a major advance in its insightful and insistent focus on the role of the father in gender differentiation and sexual dominance. . . . It will surely be recognized as a major work of feminist theory."—Nancy Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering "This thoughtful and provocative book greatly deepens the debate over the effects of mothers and fathers on their children."—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift: Inside the Two-Job Marriage
Author: Minna Salami Publisher: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN: 178699528X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 183
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In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of a social critic, the book pries apart the systems of power and privilege that have dominated ways of thinking for centuries – and which have led to so much division, prejudice and damage. And it puts forward a new, sensuous, approach to knowledge: one grounded in a host of global perspectives – from Black Feminism to personal narrative, pop culture to high art, Western philosophy to African mythology – together comprising a vision of hope for a fragmented world riven by crisis. Through the prism of this new knowledge, Salami offers fresh insights into the key cultural issues that affect women’s lives. How are we to view Sisterhood, Motherhood or even Womanhood itself? What is Power and why do we conceive of Beauty? How does one achieve Liberation? She asks women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male-centric biases, and build a house themselves – a home that can nurture us all. Sensuous Knowledge confirms Minna Salami as one the most important spokespeople of today, and the arrival of a blistering new literary voice.
Author: Roberta Hamilton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415637058 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 122
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In The Liberation of Women, Roberta Hamilton explores two of the key questions that have been systematically raised by the Women's Liberation Movement: why have women occupied a subordinate position in society and how can the variation in the forms and intensity of their exploitation and oppression be explained? Within the Women's Liberation Movement there have been seen to be two different and opposed answers to these questions: a feminist answer and a Marxist one. This new work attempts to examine this debate in specific analytical terms through a study of the changing role of women during a particular historical period - the seventeenth century. In the course of less than one hundred years the rise of capitalism and the acceptance of Protestantism had separately and together radically altered every aspect of a woman's life. Can both a feminist and a Marxist analysis account for these changes? Do such accounts conflict with each other, making a choice inevitable? Do they overlap to such an extent that retaining both would be redundant? Or, finally, are they complementary, can they usefully coexist? The Liberation of Women will be of particular interest to students of history, sociology and Women's Studies and to those who have been involved in the Women's Liberation Movement. In particular, it will prove essential basic reading for an ever-growing number of courses on sexual divisions in society and the role of women.
Author: Peggy Reeves Sanday Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801489068 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
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Contrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first went to West Sumatra in 1981, intrigued by reports that the matrilineal Minangkabau--one of the largest ethnic groups in Indonesia--label their society a matriarchy. Numbering some four million in West Sumatra, the Minangkabau are known in Indonesia for their literary flair, business acumen, and egalitarian, democratic relationships between men and women. Sanday uses her repeated visits to West Sumatra in the closing decades of the twentieth century as the basis for a new definition of matriarchy. From the vantage point of daily life in villages, especially one where she developed close personal ties, Sanday's narrative is centered on how the Minangkabau conceive of their world and think humans should behave, along with the practices and rituals they claim uphold their matriarchate. Women at the Center leaves the reader with a solid sense of the respect for women that permeates Minangkabau culture, and gives new life to the concept of matriarchy.
Author: Gerda Lerner Publisher: Women and History; V. 1 ISBN: 9780195051858 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
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A radical reinterpretation of Western civilization argues that male dominance has resulted from, and can be ended by, historical process, and identifies key developments.
Author: Phyllis Chesler Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 164160039X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 462
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Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the definitive work on the subject of women's psychology. Now back in print, this completely revised and updated edition adds perspectives on eating disorders, postpartum depression, biological psychology, important feminist political findings, female genital mutilation, and more.
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