Patriarchy: Use of the Term

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Greetings,

I have an undergraduate student working on a documentary theater piece
on fathers, who wants to connect the personal testimonies she's
collecting with some larger political questions.  I'm soliciting advice
on readings on patriarchy.  I've tried searching the logfiles, but
Patriarch* and father* turn up too many results to be really useful.  I
do have the file on "Patriarchy" and its definitions.  I can also point
her to Rich's chapter on the Kingdom of the Fathers in Of Woman Born
(for a reading that sees a strong homology between patriarchy in the
family and in the larger culture) and Foucault's comments in The History
of Sexuality critiquing that sort of neat match-up of family and larger
political structures.  And I've thought of a few other things:

        Hermann & Hirshman's article on Father-Daughter incest in the Signs
Reader
        Kimmel, Michael.  The Gendered Scoiety.  Oxford U Press, 2000.
Esp."The 'Constructed Problems' of Family Life" (on why "fatherlessness"
is not a real problem)
        Hartmann, Heidi.  "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism" (on
definitions of patriarchy)
        Rubin, The Traffic in Women (on definitions of patriarchy)

But other suggestions would be appreciated--on patriarchy, the relation
between male domination in the family and in the state, or the role of
fathers & fatherhood, cross-culturally as well as in the US. Classic
&/or accessible texts would be best.  Thanks very much,

Frann Michel
fmichel  AT  willamette.edu
English Department
Willamette University

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Try these sites for an overview of patriarchy's influence on U.S. family law

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/~liz/ (table of contents)

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/~liz/liz/002.htm (history of family law)

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/~liz/liz/014.htm (fatherhood exaltation)

Also, you can find links here on patriarchy, generally:

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/brett/


Selma Singer
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Hi

The opening chapter of Ehrenreich and English's book For Her Own Good
has an excellent discussion on the difference between the two
concepts.  Gerda Lerner's book on The Origins of Patriarchy is also
excellent.  Bette Tallen

Bette S. Tallen  Ph.D.
Coordinator of Training
Office of Diversity Initatives
University of Central Florida
e-mail: BTallen  AT  mail.ucf.edu
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Hello,

Carole Pateman has an interesting discussion of patriarchy in her book,
_The Sexual Contract_ (1988), where she addresses an ambiguity inhering in
the traditional definition of the term (rule of the father) and the way in
which it is often employed in everyday speech (rule of men over women).

Best regards,

Mona Lena Krook
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/~mlk22
http://www.womentopolitics.org

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anyone researching or developing curriculum re patriarchy should include, if
not start with, matilda joslyn gage's WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton's THE WOMAN'S BIBLE.  current editions of both are reviewed in
the upcoming winter vol. of FEMINIST COLLECTIONS...

debbie <deb  AT  kokopellisdaughters.org>

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>anyone researching or developing curriculum re patriarchy should include, if
>not start with, matilda joslyn gage's WOMAN, CHURCH AND STATE and Elizabeth
>Cady Stanton's THE WOMAN'S BIBLE.  current editions of both are reviewed in
>the upcoming winter vol. of FEMINIST COLLECTIONS...

Texts noted above (Gage/Stanton) may be Googled in seconds, and are
available online as free e-texts.

Holly Mitchell  (U/Maine)

Maine Poets Against The War:

http://www.mainewomen.net/mpaw.html

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