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Smashing the patriarchy: international law should be doing more [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The concept of “patriarchy” has been both a call to action and an analytical tool for feminist understandings of women’s place in the world as we know it.
Mudgway, Cassandra
core   +2 more sources

Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quiet activism as feminist practice

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Support and destigmatization in early pregnancy loss in Spain

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Early miscarriages are a frequent reproductive event, often silenced and shrouded in stigma. Feminist anthropology has pointed out how such losses challenge the widespread Euro‐American social representations of motherhood and pregnancy, as well as societal unease with death.
Giulia Colavolpe‐Severi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising Patriarchy

open access: yes, 1989
The concept `patriarchy', while being vital for feminist analysis, has been criticised for not being able to deal with historical and cross-cultural variation in the forms of women's subordination.
Walby, Sylvia
core   +2 more sources

Challenging Male Entitlement and Patriarchy: Promising Young Woman, Barbie, and Contemporary Feminist Theory

open access: yesGender Studies
This paper examines comparatively the potential feminist work done by two recent films, Promising Young Woman (2020) and Barbie (2023). By employing the concepts of (male) entitlement and patriarchy, we argue that pushing the concept of patriarchy to the
Manning Robert, Crăciun Dana
doaj   +1 more source

A'mmomat and weshu processing as a mechanism of balancing gender power relations among the Kambaata community of Central Ethiopia

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that power in gender relations within the Kambaata people of central Ethiopia is expressed through relational, mutual, and complementary dynamics rather than domination or control. It critiques Western liberal feminist frameworks—especially those emphasizing rights, equality, and resistance—for their limitations in ...
Desta Lorenso
wiley   +1 more source

Rural Migrants and Patriarchy in Turkish Cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This article investigates patriarchy in the context of migration to cities in Turkey. It focuses on the ways in which patriarchy reproduces itself in the lives of migrants - for example through the local community, which reproduces traditional ...
Erman, T., Tahire Erman
core   +1 more source

Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Undressing Patriarchy: Redressing Inequalities

open access: yes, 2013
The global economic crisis is showing the cracks in the surface of how patriarchy is lived in everyday lives; is now not the right time to refocus the discussion? Can we reclaim ‘patriarchy’ from the analysis of all men as patriarchs?
Carolina Maldonado Pacheco (19289347)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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