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Author Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- author.

Title The big push : exposing and challenging the persistence of patriarchy / Cynthia Enloe.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface : it's not all about Trump -- Pink pussy hats vs. patriarchy -- Syrian women resist peace table patriarchy -- When Carmen Miranda returns -- Ticonderoga, Gettysburg and Hiroshima : feminist reflections on complicity -- Patriarchal forgetting at Gallipoli, the Somme and the Hague -- A flick of the skirt -- A winding road to feminist consciousness -- Cafeteria ladies, wonder woman at the UN, and other acts of resistance -- Conclusion: updated patriarchy is not invincible.
Summary "For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. "Sexual harassment" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy--in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General's post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Patriarchy.
Patriarchy.
Sex role.
Sex role.
Feminism -- Social conditions.
Feminism.
Social conditions.
Patriarchy -- History.
History.
Sexual harassment.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Patriarchy -- Social aspects -- Syria.
Social aspects.
Syria.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Sexual harassment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Women -- Economic conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Gender roles.
Feminism.
Women's movement.
Sexual harassment.
Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- Big push. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520296886 (DLC) 2017023359 (OCoLC)982535020
ISBN 9780520969193 (electronic book)
0520969197 (electronic book)
9780520296886
0520296885
9780520296893
0520296893