EAN: 9780008418144

THE PATRIARCHS - ANGELA SAINI KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR
POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam
Sanghera 'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us 
we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade
and reasserted.' In this bold and radical book  award-winning science journalist Angela Saini
goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression  uncovering a complex history of how
male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into
the present. Travelling to the world's earliest known human settlements  analysing the latest
research findings in science and archaeology  and tracing cultural and political histories from
the Americas to Asia  she overturns simplistic universal theories to show that what patriarchy
is and how far it goes back really depends on where you are. Despite the push back against
sexism and exploitation in our own time  even revolutionary efforts to bring about equality
have often ended in failure and backlash. Saini ends by asking what part we all play - women
included - in keeping patriarchal structures alive  and why we need to look beyond the old
narratives to understand why it persists in the present.

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