Patriarchy

Informationen zum Autor Pavla Miller is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global! Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). Zusammenfassung Patriarchy has been a powerful organising concept with which social order has been understood, enforced and contested for more than 2000 years. This book shows how debates about absolutism and democracy, human prehistory, and the social justice demands of twentieth-century women's movements, were all thought through with notions of patriarchy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Thinking with Patriarchy2. Remembering Rome and Reading the Bible 3. Absolutism! Democracy and God4. Patriarchy! Matriarchy and the Origins of Humanity5. Patriarchy and the Making of Sisterhood6. Patriarchy in Feminist Scholarship and Activism from the 1980 to the End of the Millennium7. Contesting Patriarchy Today

Product details

• Authors: Miller, Pavla Miller, Pavla (Rmit University Miller, Miller Pavla
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138692435
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69243-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Key Ideas; Key Ideas
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men