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What we get wrong about patriarchy

A conversation with philosopher Robin Dembroff about their new book, Real Men on Top, identity categories, and the ...
What it is, and what to do about it. July 11, 2007 In response to “Hip Hop Dogmatism and Potential Problems for Political Organizing,” I have received two consistent criticisms: “You haven’t defined ...
The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces. In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in ...
A Yale University philosophy professor’s new book “Real Men on Top” argues that the “patriarchy” is a system of “violence, ...
This post is in response to Free Speech vs. Hate Speech By Elizabeth J. Meyer Ph.D. This month I learned that a controversial speaker was scheduled to come to my university’s campus. He often insults ...
One of the many reasons that any left that emerges from academia—as does much of today’s “left”—is doomed to ineffectiveness is that academia tends to be an anti-intellectual place. Truth, reason, and ...
This question-and-answer booklet looks at patriarchy as an analytical category to theorise women's subordination, and how it is constituted; at its origin and how it has evolved historically in ...