Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal TextsCesare Cuttica, Gaby Mahlberg This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades the texts that have shaped this culture. From the creation story in the Bible to the ancient authors, from the Church fathers to the treatises of Enlightenment philosophers, right up to modern fiction, male authority over women, children and other dependents has shaped the nature of human relationships and the discourses about these relationships. This collection of short essays offers fresh and novel readings of key texts in the history of patriarchalism as a concept of power. The texts selected are from political, religious and literary works and together the readings add new insights to a tradition that has never gone uncontested, yet is unlikely to disappear soon. |
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3 Patriarchalism and the Quran Asma Barlas | 27 |
Women in Aristotles Politics 384322 BCE Edith Hall | 35 |
Patriarchy Pluralism and the Creation of Man Catherine Conybeare | 43 |
John Knoxs First Blast of the Trumpet 1558 Anne McLaren | 49 |
William Gouge Of Domesticall Duties 1622 Karen Harvey | 57 |
14 Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant 1784 Jordan Pascoe | 115 |
Women as Property in Wollstonecrafts Mary 1788 Michelle Faubert | 123 |
16 Father Enfantin the SaintSimonians and the Call to Woman 1831 Daniel Laqua | 131 |
17 Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata 1889 Charlotte Alston | 139 |
18 Henrik Ibsens Hedda Gabler 1890 as Patriarchal Moment Arnold Weinstein | 147 |
Franz Kafkas Letter to his Father 1919 Oliver Jahraus | 155 |
Patriarchys Tragic Flaws Federico Bonaddio | 163 |
The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carters The Passion of New Eve 1977 Ruth Charnock | 171 |
Absolute Power Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language Cesare Cuttica | 65 |
Algernon Sidneys Discourses Concerning Government 1698 Jonathan Scott | 73 |
Fathers and Conversational Friendship J K Numao | 81 |
Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage 1700 Brett D Wilson | 89 |
Popes Essay on Man 1734 and the Natural History of Patriarchy Paul Baines | 97 |
The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen Sandrine Parageau | 107 |
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