In the wake of Barbie, AntiSocial looks to find a watertight definition of 'patriarchy'.
, Adam Fleming investigates the themes of the blockbuster movie and what it says about the modern world. Are we still living in a patriarchal society? But before the show gets to that question, it begs another: what do we mean when we talk about the patriarchy?, Adam asks Professor Lucy Delap, who specialises in the history of feminism at the University of Cambridge, what the term means and where it comes from.
Men needed to know who their children were, and therefore, they needed to control women's behaviour and to control their sex lives.Western colonialists believed the places they invaded should adopt their values, so patriarchal systems were often imposed on other countries. “Missionaries and colonial administrators of all kinds, and army officers, were finding, as they invaded countries across the world that there was a great variety of forms of social organisation,” says Professor Delap.
“Patriarchy really gave men the chance to come on board as well and say, ‘This is not a struggle against men. It’s a struggle against social organisation and men themselves may have a stake in that changing.’”The notion of the patriarchy has not gone away For a time, patriarchal systems were less talked of in general society. Professor Delap says the reason the patriarchy is being talked of in films like Barbie is because there have been clear recent demonstrations of its persistence. “When Trump described grabbing women by the p***y,” she says, “that was one of those moments where in a kind of pithy form, we had an icon of the power of patriarchy to make that possible for Trump.
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