Patriarchal Attitudes (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eva Figes
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: History, Philosophy or philosophers, Sexism, Social issues, Religion, Feminism, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women, Economics, Women’s movement, Sociology
Form and Content
Eva Figes’s 1970 publication Patriarchal Attitudes was one of a group of three books that came out that year explicating the history and root causes of women’s oppression by men. It was a banner year for women; as Figes’s book hit the stores, along with Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch the next year, the women’s liberation movement was born into a world already at a fever-pitch of political excitement over the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. Women who had learned how to organize...
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