Editorial by Sarojini Nadar, Fatima Seedat

“…The findings and recommendations of the report were celebrated by gender activists who welcomed the recognition of the CGE that this scheme was marked by culturally patriarchal ideals of women’s bodies. Significant within the celebrations of the ruling, was little evidence of deep and thoughtful engagement with the tensions between provisions by the constitution of South Africa for cultural and religious freedom and women’s bodily autonomy. …”
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Women's political participation in the United States after women's suffrage: women's representation in the legislature of the house of representatives and the senate by Ezra Sherly Margareth Silalahi

“…Historically, women have confronted formidable barriers to political participation, entrenched by patriarchal norms. Despite the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in the United States, which granted women voting rights, substantive representation remains elusive. …”
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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Through Dietrich’s character, Altar, the boss of the Chuck-a-Luck ranch and the criminal world it embodied, Lang critiqued the emerging Cold War ideology of the man as patriarchal figure and bread-winner. At the same time, by moving Dietrich progressively towards the centre of the film, he produced an amalgam of the women’s film and the Western genre that suggested the pointlessness of the male aggression the Western itself had traditionally embodied.…”
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Obstacles and Challenges to Gender Parity. Political Violence, Electoral System and Interculturalism by Laura Albaine

“…At the same time, the socio-cultural context also influences the process of implementation of gender parity measures. In patriarchal societies –with high levels of gender-based violence– electoral processes are often characterized by gender-based harassment and political violence, one of the greatest obstacles for increasing women’s political participation. …”

Élize Féron, Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men: Masculinities and Power in Conflict Zones. by Selina Palm

“…Féron argues that breaking this silence is an urgent feminist task if the patriarchal roots of sexual violence by men against multiple victims are to be better under-stood. …”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique by Paule Lévy

“…Far from being seen as a radical uprooting from Europe and a miraculous renewal in the New World, the Founding of the Nation is depicted as a grotesque transplantation of patriarchal injustice and arbitrariness.This remarkably effective tale, may also be seen as a young writer’s attempt to carve out a “Room of [her] Own” within the American “House of Fiction”. …”
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The Domination of Mother Earth, Gender-Based Violence, and the (Dis)Ease of Eve by Mary Hearns-Ayodele, Glencie Rhedrick, Burdette D. Lowe

“…This justification, rooted in patriarchal interpretations of scripture, has led to environmental degradation and gender-based violence (GBV) and disproportionately affected marginalized communities, especially women of color. …”
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The first publication of M.M. Agarkov (1914) by K.M. Arslanov, D.R. Miftakhutdinova, A.S. Pugacheva

“…Agarkov, one of the patriarchs of modern legal science and a representative of the Kazan School of Civil Law. …”
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Engulfed by the family: women in the Colombian Development State between 1966 and 1990 by Helena Alviar Garcia

“…Thus, women, understood as the responsible for human reproduction, and not as workers or citizens, were subordinated to the reproduction of patriarchal families, structurally affecting women’s access to resources.…”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…The two texts also indicate that the suffragettes were ready to take up any form of action that would enable them to challenge the patriarchal ideology of the time.Prisons and Prisoners and Memories of a Militant also shed some light on a time when the relations between genders were characterised by the passage from authority to power or from consensus to coercion.…”
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La crítica feminista antiextractivista del Qhapaq Ñan y la propuesta despatrimonializadora by Carina Jofré

“…I argue that the Qhapaq Ñan Andean Road System is part of the spatio-temporal adjustments made by accumulation due to dispossession in South America, and I also denounce the sexual violence configured in this patriarchal power matrix of neo-extractivist heritage processes, especially in the Province of San Juan and from La Rioja. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…For fifteen years, many Moroccan women writers have been breaking the silence on the persistent taboo of feminine virginity in a traditional patriarchal society. At a time when the demands for certificates of virginity and surgical operations of hymen repairs appear to be growing and considering the lack of sociological surveys about sexual practices in Morocco, they help to highlight traditional gendered socialization and the violent forms, either physical or symbolical, of repression on feminine sexuality in Muslim-Arab cultures based on masculine hegemony. …”
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L'emploi des Latinos aux Etats-Unis : la deuxième génération dans la région métropolitaine de Chicago by Laurence Gervais-Linon

“…Last, the number of Latino workers has increased in the last years mainly amongst women. But the Hispanic patriarchal family structure is still the rule and tends to put a brake on Latinas' participation.…”
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“Having to Think in Inverted Commas”: Feminine Discourse and Foreign Words in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book (1897) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…Beth feels estranged from her mother tongue, the language of the patriarchal canon, the hypercorrect English which is taught to young ladies. …”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. …”
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Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda constitutes an inspiring testimony to 19th-century patriarchal society. It explores the fault lines of the British androcentric system through the diegetic itinerary of its eponymous hero and his compatriots, who cut unremarkable figures of respectability. …”
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Starotestamentalny ideał: śmierć w „dobrym wieku”, we właściwym czasie i okolicznościach by Janusz Lemański

“…Ps 90,10) and generation change (burial by sons and transition to the circle of ancestors). In the case of patriarchs, above average life expectancy (cf. Gen 6,3) has a symbolic dimension (a special expression of God’s blessing). …”
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On The Verge: Dramatisation de la violence symbolique dans The Verge de Susan Glaspell by Emeline Jouve

“…The playwright also shows how women are able to counteract patriarchal violence and free themselves from the yoke of alienating conventions. …”
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Dépasser l’analogie, écouter les opprimé·es : patriarcat et blanchité dans le discours antispéciste by Myriam Bahaffou

“…On the one hand, the analogy served to establish a relationship between sexism/speciesism without women and through a patriarchal rationalist ethic, although vegan ecofeminists had already rejected similarity for an entangled and dynamic models. …”
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Vender, comprar, trocar e socializar: a participação das mulheres nas feiras de Mambaí e Posse no estado de Goiás, Brasil by Lívia Aparecida Pires de Mesquita, Maria Geralda de Almeida

“…When leaving the private sphere and conquering her space in the public sphere, women break with the patriarchal structures, still strong in the rural space that dichotomize the spaces according to sex and naturalize the public as masculine.…”
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