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Theorising Patriarchy
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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. This paper presents a new way of theorising patriarchy to meet these objections; one which is flexible enough to take account of its various forms, but rigorous enough to be an effective tool for analysis. It leaves behind base-superstructure models of patriarchy in which there is only one base, which have led to many of the rigidities which have been identified, arguing instead for a model of patriarchy as six partially-interdependent structures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the different forms of patriarchy in recent British history.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Walby, S.
- Venue
- Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1989-05
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 213-234
- ISSN
- 0038-0385 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8684
- OpenAlex
- W4245770486
- Cited by
- 930
- References
- 43
- FWCI
- 29.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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