The Big Push : Exposing and Challenging Sustainable Patriarchy.
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. ""Sexual harassment"" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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2017.
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| Summary: | For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. ""Sexual harassment"" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520969193 0520969197 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |