Quotes of: Patriarchal Keyword

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is H...

Hans Kung

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

Carol P. Christ

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

Gloria Steinem

Mind Your Language in the Presence of Patriachs Q. When is rape not rape? A. When it is your father or stepfather.

Court Licensed Abuse: Patriarchal Lore And The Legal Response To Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse Of Children

Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls an...

bell hooks

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Tony Scott

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, thou...

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

John Sutter

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

Looking for Alaska

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Carol P. Christ

Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.

Awkward

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Middlesex

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

Gloria Steinem

We must acknowledge that all we have are, at times very differing, interpretations of what Jesus was all about-and these interpretations, as they are collected in the New Testament, have been written in particular situations by men, none of whom ques...

Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

How to Be a Woman

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Charles Eastman