![]() ![]() ![]() This insistence beats like a pulse throughout the book, reminding the reader that it is necessary to interrogate the uncritical way we accept the organisation of society. The result is an uncompromising deconstruction of the complex manner in which patriarchy has knotted itself into our lives and societal structures, how this affects not only women, and the importance of not viewing history as a static, objective report. ![]() In The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Saini takes a rigorous, broad-ranging and illuminating look at the various historical iterations of patriarchy, and, in tandem, the progression of the feminist cause. “The biggest challenge has been untangling the mass of assumptions that bog down this subject, disguised as objective knowledge.” “This book has taken years of research,” writes award-winning science journalist Angela Saini. ![]()
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