“Patriarchy is a hypothetical social system based
on the absolute authority of father or an elderly male over the family group”.
-
(Encyclopedia
of Britannica)
Male control of the public and private worlds
constitutes patriarchy. patriarchy is
specifically addressed, is to advance the nation that patriarchy may in fact be
usefully thought in historical terms. In
other words, although it is true that simply to address patriarchy as a concept
is a concept is in some sense to take its validity for granted, the aim in
taking it up here is to displace it, to remove the terms of its discussion away
from the terrain of universities and to re-appropriate it for materialism, for
an approach to women’s situation in its historical specify, so it is understood
that patriarchal relations take their particular form from dominat relations of
production. In patriarchy, women have not rights over their own bodies, their
own sexuality, The marriage, reproduction or divorce in which they may not
receive education or portico a trade or profession or move about freely in tx he
world.
Patriarchy :
Patriarchy has often been used as a central concept
of analysis with which to understand the
nature of women’s oppression, both theoretically and politically. The core of
patriarchy is that “Women was made after man, of man and for man an inferior
being, subject to man “Elizabeth cady stanton, the woman’s Bible)
According to kate
milletl:
Patriarchy means
not the rule of the father but the rule of men and as such, is seen as a
universal mode of power relationships and dominance: It is all pervasive, for
it penetrates class divisions, different societics and different historical
epoches.
According to Deniz
kandiyoti:
Patriarchy evokes an overly monolithic conception
of male dominance, which is treated at a level of abstraction the obfuscates
rather than reveals the intimate inner workings of culturally and historically
destining arrangements between the genres”.
According to juliet Mitchell
“Patriarchy is the sexual politics wherby men
establish their power and maintain control.
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