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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195039963
ISBN-139780195039962
eBay Product ID (ePID)44454
Product Key Features
Book TitleCreation of Patriarchy
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year1986
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorGerda Lerner
Book SeriesWomen and History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight24 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-021578
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"The Creation of Patriarchy gives us a grand historical framework that was impossible even to imagine before the enlightenment about women's place in the world provided by her earlier work and that of other feminist scholars."--Ms. Magazine, "The Creation of Patriarchy is history in the grand mode....[It] should be on everyone's reading list."--Women's Review of Books, "The Creation of Patriarchy may well be the most important work in feminist theory to appear in our generation."--New Directions for Women, "Written by one of the most brilliant historians of our era, this book dramatically reopens a chapter of women's history that historians had thought was forever closed to them--the origins of the collective dominance of women by men. Its evidence is fascinating, its arguments compelling, andits conclusions full of significance for our time as well as the distant past."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Creation of Patriarchy has the boldness, authority, and richness of The Second Sex."--Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal305.4/09
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisIn this fresh view of the history of Western civilization, the author argues that male dominance is not natural or biological (and hence unchangeable), but a product of historical development., A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in Women's Studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of the history of Western civilazation that makes gender central to its analysis. The authour argues that male dominance over women is the product of historical development and is not "natural" or biological and hence unchangeable. Therefore patriarchy as a system or organized society can be ended by historical process., A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in Women's Studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of the history of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. The author argues that male dominance over women is the product of historical development and is not "natural" or biological and hence unchangeable. Therefore patriarchy as a system of organizing society can be ended by historical process. Lerner focuses on the contradiction between women's central role in creating society and their marginality in the meaning-giving process of interpretation and explanation. This fascinating paradox leads her to an exploration of nearly 2,600 years of human history and into the cultures of the ancient Near East, notably the Mesopotamian and ancient Hebrew societies, from whence the major gender metaphors of Western civilization are largely derived. Using historical, literary, archeological, and artistic evidence, Lerner traces the development of the leading ideas, symbols and metaphors by which partiarchal gender relations were incorporated into Western civilization. The book abounds with brilliant--and controversial--insights. Lerner propounds a startling new theory of class, showing the different ways in which class is structured for and experienced by men and women. She locates the origins of slavery in the earlier practice of "exchanging women" in marriage among tribes and shows that women of conquered tribes were the first slaves. In addition, the book contends that the exclusion of women from the role of mediator with the Divine--the dethroning of the fertility goddess and priestesses and the conceptualizing of men and women as essentially different creatures in Greek philosophy--represented the decisive turning points in the way gender is symbolized in Western civilization. About the Author: Gerda Lerner is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of such books as Black Women in White America, The Female Experience: An American Documentary, and The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History. Features: A pioneer in women's studies radically restructures the history of Western civilization in terms of gender BLTraces the development of the ideas and symbols by which the patriarchal system emerged BLCertain to stir controversy in a wide range of intellectual circles
LC Classification NumberHQ1121
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