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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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Can International Human Rights Law Smash the Patriarchy? A Review of ‘Patriarchy’ According to United Nations Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures
This article interrogates whether and how the concept of ‘patriarchy’ is used by UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies (treaty bodies) and special...
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Defiant Dykes: New Women against Patriarchy
A specific group within D’Annunzio’s and Yeats’s drama includes revengeful, defiant women who turn their diminished position into power to revenge...
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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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Support for All? Confronting Racism and Patriarchy to Promote Equitable Learning Opportunities through Undergraduate Calculus Instruction
Undergraduate calculus instruction is a contributor to racialized and gendered trends of STEM persistence and disidentification with mathematics....
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Reconsidering the role of patriarchy in upholding female genital modifications: analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial societies
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), customary female genital modification practices common in parts of Africa, South and Southeast...
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Unwritten law: Patriarchy, Dobbs, and the feminine
The Dobbs decision writes into U.S. jurisprudence patriarchy’s “unwritten law,” deciphered by Ida B. Wells with respect to racialized lynching. Its...
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What Is the Patriarchy Doing in Our Bed? Violent Sexual-Affective Experiences Among Youth
IntroductionIn the context of a qualitative research study on sexual practices and risk among youth, repeated accounts of non-consensual sex and...
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Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men
Alex Garland’s Men (2022) has been widely noted for one particular seven-minute sequence of body horror, though it has been most commonly read as a...
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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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Bargaining with patriarchy through the life course: obstacles faced (and overcome) by women leaders in Kerala’s health sector
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has helped shine the spotlight on the role of women’s leadership in tackling the world’s health and health system...
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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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Iraq’s October Revolution: Between Structures of Patriarchy and Emotion
Iraq’s Tishreen (October) Movement emerged in 2019 as a culmination of years of grassroots mobilization. To offer a comprehensive understanding of...