...ethos that denies the intrinsic value of all but a few powerful men. As she wrote several years later, Patriarchy is the power of the fathers: a familial-social,...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male. (OWB, 57) By analyzing the historical and cultural contexts of women's lives regardless of class...

...lot. There is not one generous remark about men in the entire book. Patriarchy, Adrienne Rich writes, is the power of the fathers: a familial-social, ideological,...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male. With that established, Rich — in hysteria, in hate, and in hyperbole — spins into one of...

...Adrienne Rich's eloquent definition of patriarchy provides an example of monistic over-generalization: Patriarchy is the power of the fathers: a familial-social,...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male... Under patriarchy, I may live in purdah or drive a truck;...! may serve my husband his early-morning...

...direct pressure, or through ritual, tradition, law, and language, customs, etiquette, education, and division of labor — determine what part women shall...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male."9 Patriarchy is pervasive from the inside of a woman's own consciousness where there exists "an...

...police, is entirely in male hands" (1969, pp. 34-35). Or, as Adrienne Rich later wrote in Of Woman Born, Patriarchy is the power of the fathers: a familial-social,...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male. It does not necessarily imply that no woman has power, or that all women in a given culture may...

...Routledge, 1991). 9. "Patriarchy" is, perhaps, most thoroughly characterized by Rich as "the power of fathers: a familial-social, ideological, political...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male." Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (New York: Norton, 1976),...

...scholars. Classical messages support patriarchal order in modern societies. Patriarchy is the power of fathers: a familial-social, ideological, political...play, and in which the female is everywhere subsumed by the male. It does not necessarily imply that no woman has power, or that all women in a given culture...

...rendered incomprehensible and unintelligible.56 Adrienne Rich defines patriarchy in a similar way: Patriarchy is the power of the fathers: a familial-social,...which the female is everywhere subsumed under the male. . . . The power of the fathers has been difficult to grasp because it permeates everything, even...

...patriarchy, in contrast to sex discrimination, defied reform. For example, Adrienne Rich contended, "Patriarchy is the power of the fathers: a familialsocial,...shall or shall not play, and in which the female is subsumed under the male." 3 Women's liberationists typically indicted capitalism as well. Ellen Willis,...

...deeply embedded in all its cultural systems — philosophical, political, and social. In these cultures, "men — by force, direct pressure, or through ritual,...determine what part women shall or shall not play, and. . . the female is everywhere subsumed under the male" (Rich 1977:32). Patriarchy has always been taken...