Patriarchy / by Pavla Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Pavla, 1950- author.

Series:

Key ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patriarchy.

Physical Description:

viii, 160 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Thinking with patriarchy 1

2 Remembering Rome and reading the Bible 6

3 Absolutism, democracy and God 23

4 Patriarchy, matriarchy and the origins of humanity 30

5 Patriarchy and the making of sisterhood 53

6 Patriarchy in feminist scholarship and activism from the 1980s to the end of the millennium 84

7 Contesting patriarchy today 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138692435

1138692433

9781138692442

1138692441

OCLC:

967774912