Dear god. Historical look at what patriarchy is & isn't is coming in at 4,500 words. Even the most tolerant editor will balk at this.
She does not, I'm afraid. I'm not a fan & also looking mostly at Christian societies from late medieval period on.
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Nor me, she's also v dated, but often still cited. Just curious, the v early stuff (pre-ag) interests me a lot. Looking forward to yours.
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I tend to go with an evolutionary psychological explanation for the origins of patriarchy - thinking of the other apes.
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And the tendency for them to be patriarchal when there is competition & conflict & matriarchal when there isn't - very simplistically.
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But I have mostly researched how Christian culture has rationalised & moralised about this & how women have subverted it.
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But here, I am looking at the two arguments that patriarchy was a simplistic power system or because it was a complex one it didn't exist
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And using my period & area - England 1300-1700 - as an example of patriarchy that definitely existed but wasn't the be all &end all of power
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By the way thanks for all the detail - I feel I might be distracting you!
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Ha! I am verbose everywhere!
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