Buddhism After Patriarchy
Title | Buddhism After Patriarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Rita M. Gross |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791414033 |
This book surveys both the part women have played in Buddhism historically and what Buddhism might become in its post-patriarchal future. The author completes the Buddhist historical record by discussing women, usually absent from histories of Buddhism, and she provides the first feminist analysis of the major concepts found in Buddhist religion. Gross demonstrates that the core teachings of Buddhism promote gender equity rather than male dominance, despite the often sexist practices found in Buddhist institutions throughout history.
The Creation of Patriarchy
Title | The Creation of Patriarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Gerda Lerner |
Publisher | Women and History; V. 1 |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780195051858 |
A radical reinterpretation of Western civilization argues that male dominance has resulted from, and can be ended by, historical process, and identifies key developments.
Patriarchy and Its Discontents
Title | Patriarchy and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Devereux |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780415941419 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Patriarchy to Empowerment
Title | From Patriarchy to Empowerment PDF eBook |
Author | Valentine Moghadam |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | 436 |
Release | 2007-06-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780815631118 |
This rich anthology offers twenty studies on instances of emerging social justice and women’s empowerment in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. These areas are home to huge populations where women’s rights have withered under patriarchal rule, and many are beset by civic unrest. The book shows how changes are occurring as flood tides of capital, people, and information erode entrenched gender regimes, giving birth to energetic and forward-thinking women’s movements. Highly original, conceptually sophisticated, and imminently readable, this book illustrates how local women are transforming their collective fates by questioning their status, forming alliances, demanding full participation in economic development and the political process, and mining opportunities afforded by globalization.
Women and Chinese Patriarchy
Title | Women and Chinese Patriarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Jaschok |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781856491266 |
This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard.
Patriarchy After Patriarchy
Title | Patriarchy After Patriarchy PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Kaser |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Balkan Peninsula |
ISBN | 3825811190 |
Since the second half of the 1980s social movements, which questioned the legitimacy of the hitherto seemingly stable systems of Kemalist Turkey and socialist Balkans, won ground. Political Islam struck Turkey; in the Balkan socialist countries the dams broke, and parliamentary democracies replaced monolithic socialist regimes. These processes have not been gender neutral. Therefore the central question is: after the abolition of patriarchy and the official installation of gender equality, are patriarchy and female discrimination returning in the region through the backdoor, although in a modernized version?
Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family
Title | Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family PDF eBook |
Author | Richard P. Saller |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780521599788 |
This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.