The Patriarchs
Book description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera
'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had…
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After four phases of feminism, we still find ourselves in a world dominated not just by men but by male ideas. I saw this book on the bookshop shelf and knew it was a definite-buy.
The book spoke to me because I’m a human being. It’s obvious what is going on in the world – that men are exploiting their position for selfish ends, at the expense of women but also of themselves.
This book demolishes the unspoken assumptions of patriarchy by showing, with full evidence, the variety of social organisation – humane social organisation – that is possible. Men…
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