Tag: patriarchy

Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.

Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.

Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.

Reema Zaman on deciding she would no longer live to please men, and how women’s self-esteem and self-love is a revolutionary act of dissent.

Sometimes, the only way to vent your rage so you can be a useful member of society is with an axe.

What it was like living in one of America’s most patriarchal societies.

How the MeToo movement became a feminist sexual revolution.

Rebecca Solnit is expert at crystalizing common experiences in such a way that lays bare deeply ingrained patriarchal influences

In a short essay for Time, playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes about simultaneously understanding many women’s difficulty calling out abusive fathers—like her own and alleged rapist Bill Cosby—and being frustrated with a culture that protects beloved, powerful patriarchs while vilifying and portraying as liars the women who speak out against them: I think of […]