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Faustin T. Kalabamu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Patriarchy and women s land rights in botswana
Land Use Policy, 2006Co-Authors: Faustin T. KalabamuAbstract:Abstract Patriarchy has been defined as a gendered power system: a network of social, political and economic relationships through which men dominate and control female labour, reproduction and sexuality as well as define women's status, privileges and rights in a society. Taking Botswana as a case study, this essay examines the effects of Patriarchy on women's access, control and ownership of land in southern Africa. It notes that while women were largely excluded from land ownership during the pre-colonial era, Patriarchy has since been selective on the type and nature of land rights that women may enjoy. The essay argues that the weakening of traditional patriarchal structures, attitudes and practices in Botswana is a result of women's self-empowerment, economic transformations and the replacement of chieftainship with democratic institutions. It ends by noting that despite the apparent weakening of pre-colonial institutions and attitudes, there have emerged new forms of female subordination, which require vigilance and constant exposure.
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Patriarchy and women’s land rights in Botswana
Land Use Policy, 2006Co-Authors: Faustin T. KalabamuAbstract:Abstract Patriarchy has been defined as a gendered power system: a network of social, political and economic relationships through which men dominate and control female labour, reproduction and sexuality as well as define women's status, privileges and rights in a society. Taking Botswana as a case study, this essay examines the effects of Patriarchy on women's access, control and ownership of land in southern Africa. It notes that while women were largely excluded from land ownership during the pre-colonial era, Patriarchy has since been selective on the type and nature of land rights that women may enjoy. The essay argues that the weakening of traditional patriarchal structures, attitudes and practices in Botswana is a result of women's self-empowerment, economic transformations and the replacement of chieftainship with democratic institutions. It ends by noting that despite the apparent weakening of pre-colonial institutions and attitudes, there have emerged new forms of female subordination, which require vigilance and constant exposure.
Heidi Gottfried - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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BEYOND Patriarchy? THEORISING GENDER AND CLASS
Sociology, 1998Co-Authors: Heidi GottfriedAbstract:This paper questions recent attempts by feminists to move theory beyond Patriarchy, addressing the charge by Pollert that the concept of Patriarchy impoverishes analysis of gender and class. In place of Patriarchy, the author advocates an alternative feminist historical materialist analysis of hegemonic practices as the means for excavating gender and class from lived experience. This mode of historical materialist theorising rejects the concept of Patriarchy as unnecessarily abstract and unable to advance knowledge about the construction of gender in practice. A theory of practice can make sense of the mess of everyday life, and focus research on gendered bodies, spaces and experiences.
Sechiyama Kaku - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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What is Patriarchy
Patriarchy in East Asia, 2013Co-Authors: Sechiyama KakuAbstract:This chapter focuses on various concepts of Patriarchy, and then develops feminism's view of it into a form that can be used as an analytical tool in comparative sociology. Sociologists and cultural anthropologists subsequently developed concepts of Patriarchy separate from the theory of the divine right of kings and Patriarchy as the basis of the nation state. When feminism used the word "Patriarchy," the intent was to grasp the nature of existing male domination. The chapter traces two types of approaches taken in investigating the origins of Patriarchy-the psychological approach and the historical approach. Patriarchy can be effectively applied to grasp the historical and spatial deviations and transformations in social relations intertwined with gender in a particular society. Patriarchy must be seen as comprising two elements: (1) sexual inequality based on an unequal distribution of power and (2) an accompanying gender based allocation of roles.Keywords:Cultural Anthropology; feminism; Japan; Japanese sociology; Patriarchy
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Patriarchy in China
Patriarchy in East Asia, 2013Co-Authors: Sechiyama KakuAbstract:Chinese society was influenced by its own type of Patriarchy in a way that set it apart from other socialist societies. Like their counterparts in the Soviet Union and North Korea, Chinese revolutionaries, during the initial phase of building socialism, made an effort to break down the existing mode of family life which served as the foundation of traditional Patriarchy. The effort to build socialism strengthened during the period from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution. This chapter presents a comparison of the Kim Il Sung system and the Cultural Revolution. It depicts the existing employment environment for women and touches upon the completely different conditions that exist in the coastal cities and in the farming villages in the country's inland areas. Patriarchy has been reinforced among smaller families. In the cities, even though it has attenuated, the influence of norms based on gender and generation - patriarchal norms - has persisted.Keywords:China; Cultural Revolution; gender issues; Great Leap Forward; Kim Il Sung; Patriarchy; socialism; Soviet period
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Patriarchy in North Korea
Patriarchy in East Asia, 2013Co-Authors: Sechiyama KakuAbstract:This chapter examines Patriarchy and economic development in North Korea, a socialist society. It begins with a look at how policies have changed and at what the image of the ideal woman has been in North Korea. The chapter also examines the steady advance of the dominance of Kim Il Sung's thinking and sees how it was intertwined with policies on the status of women. Through the latter half of the 1950s, men and women were fully put to work without distinction. It was during this stage that the attempt to build socialism was in direct conflict with Patriarchy. The Confucian norms present in Korean society were utilized along with the logic of a blood relationship to justify the transfer of leadership on the basis of heredity. Kim Il Sung in an address organized by the Korean Democratic Women's Union in 1961, also affirmed the role of women as mothers. Keywords:Kim Il Sung; Korean Democratic Women's Union; North Korea; Patriarchy; socialist construction
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The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy
Patriarchy in East Asia, 2013Co-Authors: Sechiyama KakuAbstract:This chapter clarifies the unrecognized differences in gender relations in the societies in the Confucian cultural sphere by showing how the characteristics of Patriarchy in each society are related to Confucianism. It discusses Patriarchy and the emergence of the housewife in early modern Japan. Japan's industrialization relied on workers leaving their farming villages to work in industry. Young, unmarried women accounted for a high percentage of this labor force. The chapter examines Confucian norms for women and origin and characteristics of ideology of the good wife and wise mother. It describes the relationship of this ideology with Confucianism and the role it played in East Asian societies. Women's magazines in the Taisho period played a key role in this trend due to the scale of their readership which gave them great influence. The salaryman appeared as the backbone of the white collar workforce employed by government agencies and large corporations.Keywords:Confucianism; East Asia; industrialization; Japanese Housewife; labor force; Patriarchy; salaryman; Taisho period
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South Korean Patriarchy
Patriarchy in East Asia, 2013Co-Authors: Sechiyama KakuAbstract:South Korean Patriarchy was greatly influenced by Confucian norms. This chapter provides an overview of how they permeated South Korean society before discussing their content. The chapter discusses the scorn that Confucian tradition had for physical labor. However, a drift away from Confucianism has been occurring in recent years, particularly among the younger generation. The chapter discusses the social conditions in South Korea up to about 2000, and compares the rate of the country's women's participation in the labor force with that of Taiwan. The chapter examines South Korean views on women working, using several attitude surveys, including those among the "Social Statistics Surveys" conducted by Statistics Korea. The data provided in the chapter are a realistic indication that relations between husbands and wives in South Korea were first of all based on economic and functional considerations rather than feelings of love. Keywords:Confucianism; contemporary housewives; South Korean Patriarchy; Women's employment
Suad Joseph - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Patriarchy and development in the Arab world.
Gender and development, 1996Co-Authors: Suad JosephAbstract:The persistence of Patriarchy in the Arab world, and other regions, is an obstacle for women, children, families, and states. It affects health, education, labour, human rights, and democracy. This article argues that Patriarchy is powerful in the Arab world because age-based kinship values and relationships are crucial socially, economically, politically, ideologically, and psychologically.
Fariba Solati - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Women, Work, and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa
2017Co-Authors: Fariba SolatiAbstract:1. Introduction -- 2. Explaining the Low Rate of Female Labor Force Participation in the Middle East and North Africa -- 3. Measuring Patriarchy: The Determinants of Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa -- 4. Invisible Work of the Invisible Half: Women and 'Work' in the Middle East and North Africa -- 5. Conclusion.
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Measuring Patriarchy: The Determinants of Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa
Women Work and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa, 2017Co-Authors: Fariba SolatiAbstract:This chapter quantifies the ten main characteristics of Patriarchy and measures them for fifty-nine developing countries over the past 30 years. It uses the Principal Component Analysis method to compress these indicators into three main measures of Patriarchy (gender gap in education and demography, gender gap in survival rates and gender gap in public spheres). The study finds that compared with countries outside the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), on average, MENA countries have higher levels of Patriarchy with regard to women’s access to public spheres. This appears to be related to Islamic ideology, regional culture and oil income. Although the rates of change of different aspects of Patriarchy are not uniform, Patriarchy is declining globally, yet very slowly.
