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Due to a lack of submissions the Against Patriarchy compilation zine will be available after the conference. Several folks have already contributed wonderful, rants, poems, and stories and you now have the opportunity to contribute during the conference! The Zine room will be in 361 PLC, it is full of fantastic zines for you to read and ... materials for you to make your contribution to the 2003 Against Patriarchy zine!
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Patriarchy is advanced as being advantageous for human evolution and social organization on many grounds, crossing several disciplines. Although biology may explain its existence (see below), arguments for its social utility have been made since ancient times.
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The Against Patriarchy conference is on for May 4-6, 2007 at the UO Campus in Eugene, Oregon! Proposals for workshops, discussions, speakers, music, art, tables, etc. are still being accepted. Please contact: againstpatriarchy@gmail.com Check back for updates soon. Preliminary information can be found here: http://againstpatriarchy07.wordpress.com
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Patriarchy in its literal sense means the rule of the fathers. Having it roots in tribal society, it was institutionalized in post tribal societies into more complex religious, social and legal systems and formal governmental structures such as the senate of ancient Rome and most subsequent governments. The word senator derives from a Latin word meaning old man. Throughout recorded history in most human societies some form of patriarchy has prevailed, reinforced by cultural values derived from systems of male dominance. It has been so commonly and continually practiced as to appear natural rather than a humanly constructed social order that is both changing and changeable. In its present forms patriarchy has become more an ideology and belief system than the explicit social and political systems of earlier times. Even in countries where legal equality of women and men has been established, the deep psychological and cultural roots of patriarchy survive as a belief system in the minds of many women and men.
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Patriarchy-blaming tends, on this blog, to be expressed in broad strokes. I’m forever making with the feminist aphorisms. You know. “Pornography is the graphic representation of women’s oppression.” Or, “Being sexually manipulative is not an expression of personal sovereignty.” Or, “Irony is the enemy of dinner.” These glib remarks sound majestic […]
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Philip Longman, a nice liberal affiliated with the nice liberal New America Foundation, has written a politically incorrect article that's getting a lot of deserved attention: The Return of Patriarchy in the March-April edition of Foreign Policy magazine. It endorses, without mentioning it by name, much of Pat Buchanan's 2001 book on falling birthrates, The Death of the West.
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