Tag: patriarchy

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 […]