On the Origin and Nature of Patriarchy : Table of Contents

On the Origin and Nature of Patriarchy

1. What is Patriarchy?

2. Pre-patriarchal Societies

3. The Discovery of Biological Paternity and the Dialectic of Fatherhood

4. The Dialectic of Fatherhood (Contd)

5. The First Procedures for Creating Fatherhood or Social Paternity

6. TheFirstProceduresforCreatingFatherhood(Contnd)

7.EstablishmentofPatriarchyIn the Iron Age; Private Property & Dominant social classes

8. Organized, Monotheistic Religions;Judaism;Christianity

9. Organized, Monotheist Religions (Contd): Pre-Islamic Arabia

10.Organized, Monotheist Religions (Contd): Islam

11.The Core of Patriarchal Ideology

12. Hebrew Myth of Creation: Lilith & Adam

13. Hebrew Myths of Creation (Contd): Adam and Eve

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Hegemonic Masculinity, Manly States, and Violence Against Women

Conceptualizing Gender

1. Biologically Essentialist & Social constructionist theories of gender; Sex Role Theories of Gender

2. Structuralism; Post-structural Theories and Semiotics of Gender; Foucault’sTheory of Body and Power

3. Bryan Turner’s BodyPractice; Judith Butler’s Gender Performance and Performativity