Classical bourgeois political theory articulated the political revolution that established possessive individualism as the basis of legitimate government and the foundation of civil society. In this respect, it inaugurated the systematic investigation of the objective rules governing subjective human existence. The work of Thomas Hobbes and of John Locke, like classical political economy and mo...

about Consuelo, a Puerto Rican girl who must learn to cope with her schizophrenic sister and dysfunctional family. Consuelo leaves Puerto Rico for New York near the end of the novel to escape the negative influences of her family. Both novels are worthy of examination for their portrayal of adolescent girls’ telling struggle to define their identities among cultural and gender boundaries impose...

Patriarchy in Indonesia is still strong, as can be seen from high cases violence against women. occurs the presence of gender differences. This research made to discover how patriarchy represented movie ‘Yuni’. ‘Yuni’ a with setting taken Serang, West Java, produced by FourColor Films. The reveals practice everyday life Indonesia. type used descriptive qualitative, using semiotic analysis metho...

Using a critical, grounded theory approach, we interviewed 31 atheist-identified women to ascertain the ways in which develop and navigate an atheist identity how their experience is influenced by patriarchal, hegemonic Christianity United States using concealable stigmatized framework. Qualitative analysis resulted six core categories: (1) Embracing Atheism as Liberation, (2) Escaping Christia...

Lindsay Kelland has taken issue with a claim I made in a book titled The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys. In response to this claim, she has argued that when a woman is raped, it matters that her rapist is a male because "her situation as a woman under patriarchy is partly constitutive of the harm that she suffers" in being raped. In my response to her article, I show that sh...

This article compares murder cases labeled "honor killings" with cases labeled "family/spousal murders" in the Canadian news media, exploring the construction of boundaries between these two practices. We conducted a systematic qualitative content analysis, examining a sample of 486 articles from three major Canadian newspapers between 2000 and 2012. Our analysis shows that "honor killings" are...

Despite appearances to the contrary (fostered by anthropocentric nursery stories), a distinct role for male parents does not exist in nature. Fatherhood was invented by humans during the agricultural revolution about six thousand years ago. Symbolized by the new god-king, it incorporated the mother's originally superior role in primate families--the control or ownership of children. The male de...