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Husband is a Priority: Gender Roles, Patriarchy and the Naming of Female Children in Nigeria
In onomastic practices of some traditional societies in Nigeria, stereotyped gender roles and patriarchy are deliberately perpetuated in the naming...
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Revisiting the islam-patriarchy nexus: is religious fundamentalism the central cultural barrier to gender equality?
Is Islam a religion that promotes patriarchy? In the academic debate, there are different assessments. On the one hand, there is the thesis of an...
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Unveiling Gender Discourse in the State Patriarchy—An Investigation of Cultural Strategies in the Women’s Magazine in Maoist China
The question how pro-women elements became possible in the state-sponsored movements despite the prevalence of state patriarchy in Maoist China has...
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Chihera’s Matriarchal Traits: A Mirror of Reverse Patriarchy
Patriarchy is both sustained and interwoven in society, culture and religion. Scholars have produced a lot of literature bemoaning how patriarchy...
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Evangelical Organizations’ Responses to Domestic Violence: How the Cultural Production of Religious Beliefs Challenges or Enshrines Patriarchy
BackgroundA significant body of research has established the central role of religion in creating and preserving cultural beliefs about gender. But...
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Development of the India Patriarchy Index: Validation and Testing of Temporal and Spatial Patterning
While existing indices of gender equality measure the role of women’s status and position, they inadequately contextualize the broader construct of...
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Patriarchy, Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence in Rural Communities
The premise of this chapter is based on the considerable body of evidence from the UK and beyond that masculinity has particular characteristics and...
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On White, Male Desires and Projections: Islamophobia and Patriarchy
Gender issues and especially women have been a focal point in the literature of Islamophobia Studies. Less of a focus is the role of the oppressive...
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Introduction: Protection and Patriarchy, Can They Co-exist?
Women of Pakistan suffer from complex and growing challenges related to poverty, disease burden, informal sector employment, violence, and low life...
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The Fifth Skin: Capitalism, Modernity/Coloniality and Patriarchy
The chapter focuses on the fifth skin, which corresponds to the world environment, to the global ecology. It is the last layer, which surrounds all...
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Patriarchy, Women’s Movements, and Coalitions: An Intersectional Framework
Patriarchal gender relations are key to understanding women’s oppression as well as their politics and coalitions. Reconceptualized in intersectional...
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Modern-Day Pygmalions—Reproducing the Patriarchy
This chapter examines the ways that modern-day Pygmalions play their part in the continuation of the patriarchy. Modern Pygmalions take their lead...
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Implications of Consolidating Patriarchy Through Exploitation of “Better” Ways of Conveying Disagreeable Practices to Chihera, the Epitome of Empowered Women in Zimbabwe
This chapter contributes to the broader debate on ways that contribute to the consolidation of patriarchy. This non-empirical examination is a...
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The Nexus Between Patriarchy and Capitalism: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Play Where There’s a Will
Raising voice against any form of exploitation is very difficult, but the task becomes even more challenging when one has to question one’s own...
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The Struggle for Inclusion: Patriarchy Confronts Women and the LGBTQ+ Community
Women and the LGBTQ+ community face a common foe in their political struggle. Patriarchy has long excluded both, placing women in subordinate...
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Rural Pakistani Women in Context: Patriarchy and Poverty
Patriarchalism is a global phenomenon that has variable structures and degrees. As a basic structure, Castells (The Power of Identity. Blackwell...
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Ultra-Intensity Patriarchy Care and Gender Violence on the Paraná Tri-Border Area
This book analyzes the experiences of women living and working across the busiest and most transited frontier in South America, the Paraná Tri-Border...
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From State Paternalism to Private Patriarchy: East German Women
Although Helmut Kohl promised that no one “would be worse off than before,” GDR women were justifiably nervous about unification under a conservative...
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Kinship, Patriarchal Structure and Women’s Bargaining with Patriarchy in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
The book provides insights into the prevailing patriarchal system in rural Pakistan. It elaborates on the kinship system in rural Sindh and explores...
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Patriarchy and Disability: A Culture of Ubuntu, African Women with Disabilities and Sustainable Livelihoods in Matetsi Community, Zimbabwe
Written from the rural livelihood and ubuntu approach, this chapter explores the power and influence of women with disabilities in disrupting...