The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520296893 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Without understanding the incredible tentacles of patriarchy and its reinventions, we are destined to fight old battles as well as new ones. And with her usual alchemy, she makes an entertaining page-turner out of a serious subject.' Sohaila Abdulali; 'Cynthia Enloe is an adventurer, an intellectual with a light touch and inveterate 'feminist curiosity'; here she is again travelling across time and space - revisiting her own great history as an activist scholar, the landscapes of new and old wars, new and old political settlements, new and old trades in banana and bombs; in all of them she shows how thinking about gender, the renewal of patriarchy and women's resistance, is vital to making sense of the world. And it is an absolute delight fo
For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy—in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General’s post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to w