The creation of patriarchy

Gerda Lerner

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women has nothing to do with biology, and everything to do with cultural and historical habits. Dr Lerner draws her evidence from a host of archaeological, literary, and artistic sources, using them to pinpoint the critical turning points in the allocation of women's roles in society. She draws especially on archaeological evidence of the cultures of ancient Hebrew and Mesopotamian societies, cultures from which modern Western civilization has largely derived. This approach enables her to trace the ways in which men and women have been classified as essentially separate creatures - from ancient Greek philosophy onwards - and also to examine ways in which their experience of society differs, through the structures and symbols of class and religion.

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書名 The creation of patriarchy
著作者等 Lerner, Gerda
シリーズ名 Women and history
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 1986
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xvi, 318 p., [23] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0195051858
0195039963
NCID BA00882934
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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