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This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy, education, government, religion, the military, law enforcement, and communications. The author predicts the feminization of American life with particular reference to changes in the American family and the ever increasing dominance of women in all American institutions.

This research explores how empowerment programs impact gender-based violence and the social structures that lead to such violence in the first place. Drawing from interviews with former participants in empowerment programs that focus on building community leaders, the study examines how grassroots women lead interventions and their effects on leaders' and survivors' lives. We find that although most survivors had displayed some agency in independently resisting violence, their efforts were more effective when coupled with a support network and access to resources. With the intervention of leaders, the survivors were able to better negotiate for justice with a renewed sense of agency. For the leaders, participation in programs gave them an identity independent of their status within the family. They promoted change by developing independent, innovative intervention strategies that worked despite the tight structural constraints of gendered norms.

This book aims to analyze and deconstruct the forms of patriarchy embedded in Turkish society and politics. In this regard, it analyses how patriarchy functions and reconstructs itself by suppressing women and non heterosexuals. It also reveals its effects on women and non-heterosexuals through some societal and political issues such as military interventions, the perceptions on transsexuals by the state and society, juvenile penal justice, and policies on environment.

"In this enlightening yet devastating book, Susan Hawthorne writes with clarity and incisiveness on how patriarchy is wreaking destruction on the planet and on communities. The twin mantras of globalisation and growth expounded by the neoliberalism that has hijacked the planet are revealed in all their shabby deception. Backed by meticulous research, the author shows how so-called advances in technology are, like a Trojan horse, used to mask sinister political agendas that sacrifice the common good for the shallow profiteering of corporations and mega-rich individuals. Susan Hawthorne details how women, lesbians, people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, the poor, refugees and the very earth itself are being damaged by the crisis of patriarchy that is sucking everyone into its vortex. Importantly, this precise and insightful volume also shows what is needed to get ourselves out of this spiral of destruction: a radical feminist approach with compassion and empathy at its core. The book shows a way out of the vortex: it is now up to the collective imagination and action of people everywhere to take up the challenges Susan Hawthorne shows are needed. This is a vital book for a world in crisis and should be read by everyone who cares about our future."--

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Year of the Pandemic -- Introduction -- A note on truth -- A note on words -- Key terms in this book -- Chapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the Planet -- Appropriation of politics -- How has criticism of globalisation shifted sides? -- The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunity -- Understanding neoliberalism -- Resistance -- Markets, work and the Universal Basic Income -- Chapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities -- Feminism -- Ruling classes -- Infantilisation -- Colonisation -- Harm minimisation -- Normalisation -- Erasure -- The technology of bodies -- Money -- The personal is political -- Chapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men's Patriotic Wars against Women's Intimate Lives -- War and the institution of heterosexuality intersect -- War and masculinity, torture and heterosexuality -- Intimacy and war -- To counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily life -- Postmodern war -- Money -- What would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety? -- Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and Women -- What is bioprospecting? -- What is biopiracy? -- Biopiracy of earth-based resources -- Biopiracy and value -- Biopiracy of body-based resources -- Separation -- Microcolonialism of Indigenous bodies -- Gynocolonialism -- Bodies with disabilities -- Heterocolonialism -- Intergenerational sustainability and cultural integrity -- Money -- What practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism? -- Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and Trauma -- Being homeless in the body -- Dispossession.

AbstractIn Bangladesh, men dominate, oppress and exploit women through private and public patriarchy. Private patriarchy is maintained in the family through the misinterpretation of religion and the non-recognition of unpaid work done by women at home. In the family women are considered as passive dependants and property of their husbands. Women are also excluded from economic and political power through public patriarchy. In the public arena women are only considered as sexual objects and patriarchy is maintained through sexual harassment. Capital accumulation further strengthens patriarchy in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, men's attitudes towards women are shaped by advertisements, films, beauty contests and pornography where women are used as sexual objects to accumulate capital. Increasingly, men have started to use the dowry system for capital accumulation. Thus men in Bangladesh accumulate capital through private and public patriarchy.

Patriarchy has been justified by philosophies of beauty, but such paradigms have come into conflict with contemporary international law governing human rights. This book analyzes how feminist philosophy has undermined dualistic notions of sexual identity, and is transforming human consciousness.

Understanding women's psychological responses to various forms of patriarchy / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago -- Historical circumstances and biological proclivities surrounding patriarchy / Naomi Quinn -- Growing up female in Sorth India / Susan C. Seymour -- To make her understand with love: expectations for emotion work in North Indian families / Jocelyn Marrow -- Perspectives on gender roles and relations across three generations of Maya women in Southern Mexico / Adriana M. Manago -- Contested terrains of female education in rural muslim Pakistan / Ayesha Khurshid -- Moving beyond notions of resistance and accommodation: understanding how women navigate conflicting models of marriage in rural Mexico / Holly F. Mathews -- What women's experiences in disadvantaged families in Ankara, Turkey, have to tell about patriarchy / Gülden Güvenç -- Theorizing female consent: familism, motherhood, and middle-class feminine subjectivity in contemporary South Korea / Kelly H. Chong -- Property, patriarchy, and the Chinese state / Leta Hong Fincher -- Reflections on kidnap and rape culture: a cross-cultural comparison of patriarchy / Cynthia Werner -- Charting a way forward / Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago.