168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Thinking with Patriarchy
2. Remembering Rome and Reading the Bible
3. Absolutism, Democracy and God
4. Patriarchy, Matriarchy and the Origins of Humanity
5. Patriarchy and the Making of Sisterhood
6. Patriarchy in Feminist Scholarship and Activism from the 1980 to the End of the Millennium
7. Contesting Patriarchy Today
Biography
Pavla Miller is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia).
