Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Since the 1980s, John Everett Millais’s emblematic oil painting, Ophelia (1851–1852) has been remarkably framed by feminist discourses on gender that convincingly demonstrated how the representation of female death could be linked to patriarchal tradition whose underlying discourse was to tame, control and ultimately objectify women. …”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…The paper taps into the lived ethos of abantu to argue that decolonisation as a reflection of the lifeways central to the cosmic rhythm is not far off even within the patriarchal, western-centric, colonial Africa. In this way, the ubiquity of the capitalist, instrumentalist, rational reason is routinely undermined as higher ideals are lived, heralding beauty in the desert.…”
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Relire pour nous relier by Cassandre Martigny

“…The three rewritings denounce patriarchal readings of the myth of Jocasta and create other networks of meanings derived from or set against them. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Indeed this text allows Miss Braddon to throw light on the position of middle-class Victorian women in a patriarchal and particularly oppressive world. If, in this story, the reader can see an attempt at refusing or revolting against a paradoxical ideological discourse, Miss Braddon eventually aimed at opening women’s world by subverting traditional roles and making male protagonists experience female suffering and boredom. …”
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Liberative Black theology: a case study of race in theological education by M. Naidoo

“…However, Christian organisations are structured in patriarchal and hierarchical ways with their authoritarianism; hence, the roots of oppression lie deeper. …”
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The Social Construction of Motherhood in Bengali Folklore by Sraboni Chatterjee, Pranab Chatterjee

“…Further, the attribution of motherhood empowers human women somewhat in a highly patriarchal society, and the storylines developed give appearances of logic in popular form.…”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…There are diverse spiritualities, each one culture-specific, expressing its own historical, sociological, theological, linguistic and philosophical orientation. Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES by J.A. Cleofas

“…I show that failure to reference the work of these two women is connected to the commission of egregious mistakes such as promoting silence and secrecy that further harm victims, partiality toward abusers, perpetuating organisational structures that correlate with abuse, and failing to listen to women who point to a connection between abuse and patriarchal Catholic culture. …”
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“One is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman”: Impressions of Women on the Career in Agribusiness and its Spaces by Heliani Berlato, Danilo Andretta, Thais Fernandes

“…Five factors were identified, and, from that, two clusters were defined, called “maintainers of the patriarchal system” and “aware of protagonism”. Both clusters demarcate tensions about how women see discrimination and experience the multiple unfoldings of sexist behaviors and attitudes that permeate their career pathways in agribusiness.…”
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Role of Spindle Oscillations across Lifespan in Health and Disease by Julie Seibt, Igor Timofeev, Julie Carrier, Adrien Peyrache

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Agency in Community: Understanding Gender-Based Violence from within a Muslim Community in Lenasia, Johannesburg by Aaishah Lombard, Elina Hankela

“…Second, while largely opting to rather ignore than criticize probable patriarchal tones in their religion, participants freely expressed their critical views on patriarchy and GBV in relation to their culture. …”
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Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah by J.A. Triana Palomino, I.D. Toro-Jaramillo, S.M. Giraldo Sánchez

“…The biblical narrative of judge and prophetess Deborah and her editorial process in the 8th century BC provide clues for confrontation and transformation by naturally portraying a woman exercising authority in a patriarchal setting, relating to men on an equal footing, and being recognised and respected through attitudes of listening, care, and empathy. …”
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Children «on the side»: feeding industry on territory of Tavrida Province in late XIX–early XX centuries by V. A. Maslennikova

“…The disintegration of the patriarchal family entailed a massive exodus of women to cities, which in turn turned out to be on the quantitative indicators of illegitimate births. …”
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A Socialist Feminist Reading of Thatcherite Women in British Feminist Plays by Berna Ayça Ülker Erkan

“…The study discusses excessively ambitious women who question patriarchal order and subvert gender roles to get power and finally left alone on the top like Thatcher. …”
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Le corps féminin à Casablanca : un reflet mouvant des rôles de genre ? by Leila Bouasria, Nezha Aidi

“…Active women seek to distance themselves from patriarchal stereotypes, namely sexual availability, maternal dedication, and social subordination. …”
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The South African Traditional Communities and Women for Rural Democracy and Land Rights by Wandile Brian Zondo

“…However, their contributions have often been marginalised due to systemic challenges stemming from historical injustices, gender discrimination, and entrenched patriarchal practices. Nevertheless, the role of rural women has resulted in some strides toward the democratization of traditional governance and land administration. …”
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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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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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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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