Concept
Patriarchy
Overview
social system dominated by men
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The distinction between rich and poor was added to that between free men and slaves. This and the new division of labor constitute a new division of society into classes. The differences in the amount of property belonging to the several family heads broke up the old communistic households one by one, wherever they might have been preserved thus far. This made an end to the collective cultivation of the soil for the…
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
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Thus, the restoration of the monogamous family came as a result of political organization. The general course of development was the same everywhere, though the particular steps varied greatly. It was especially in connection with the rise of the patriarchal joint family, which is intermediate between the kinship group and the individual family, that obstructing influences sometimes manifested themselves. In such…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Patriarchy; the term itself is not named.
"The poets hold that gold and silver, the philosophers that iron and corn have civilised men and ruined the human race." Each new advance of civilisation is at the same time an advance of inequality. All contrivances with which society endows itself by means of civilisation are in direct opposition to their original purpose. "It is beyond question and a foundation principle of the entire public law that people made…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
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Philosophers who discussed Patriarchy
- Feminism
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Bell hooks
- Friedrich Engels
- Jacques Derrida
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Emma Goldman
- Mary Daly
Related ideas
- Egalitarianism
- Encyclopédie
- Feminist theory
- Social system
- Greek language
- Classical Greece
- Athens
- Genetics
- Herodotus
- Abrahamic religions
- Private property
- Japan
- Republic (Plato)
- Authority
- Roland Barthes
- Capital (economics)
- Marxism
- Bell hooks
- Social constructionism
- Western world
- Plato
- Property
- Qing dynasty
- Racism
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.