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Article: Dancing with the patriarchs.(History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism)(Book review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism
By Judith M. Bennett
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, 214 pp., $49.95, hardcover
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Speaking of patriarchy, Judith Bennett employs "a metaphor of ballroom dancing" in which
women and men--many different sorts of
women and men--move across the room,
alter their steps, movements and rhythms,
even change partners or groups, but always
the men are leading. In this patriarchal dance,
there has been much change in women's
lives, but little transformation in women's
status in relation to men.
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