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The Act was created to address the needs of women in business by giving women entrepreneurs better recognition, additional resources, and by eliminating discriminatory lending practices by banks that favored male business owners over female. The bill was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan.
The Creation of Patriarchy is a non-fiction book written by Gerda Lerner in 1986 as an explanation for the origins of misogyny in ancient Mesopotamia and the following Western societies. She traces the "images, metaphors, [and] myths" that lead to patriarchal concepts' existence in Western society (Lerner 10).
Johnson also details how the average person helps reinforce the patriarchy by avoiding questioning the status quo. He explains how men directly benefit from patriarchy, and that they must contribute to the feminist movement by addressing their own male privilege. He dissects the phenomenon that men can be both privileged and made to feel ...
Allan G. Johnson (1946–2017) was an American writer and public speaker who worked in the fields of sociology and gender studies. One of his nonfiction works is The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy, about the detrimental effects of the patriarchy.
EXTRACT: In her first book, Maya Oppenheim explores scandalous statistics and distressing anecdotes to educate and embolden readers to challenge injustice
The book is an exploration of Black female identity in the US and the politics surrounding the perception of Black culture in America. [ 2 ] Sister Citizen delves into the historical and contemporary effects of racialization and negative stereotypes of Black American women and their relationship to citizenship . [ 3 ]
The crusade against “Gender Queer” has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of Kobabe's royalty checks. The memoir has sold more than 96,000 copies and has been translated into ...
As a result of the men's dependence on women's labour, concessions are made in the form of wages and land. "Classic patriarchy" is contrasted as the opposite end of the continuum. In classic patriarchy the women's conventional navigation of patriarchy follows a cyclical pattern of patriarchal bargaining; a woman enters her husband's domain ...