patriarchy
Let an agent explain patriarchy as an analytical concept and its historical forms, relay theories and evidence from social science and feminist sources with attribution, describe regional and historical variants neutrally, and distinguish patriarchy from patrilineality, patriarchal religious titles and individual male behaviour.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain patriarchy as an analytical concept and its historical forms, relay theories and evidence from social science and feminist sources with attribution, describe regional and historical variants neutrally, and distinguish patriarchy from patrilineality, patriarchal religious titles and individual male behaviour.
A social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property, and in which fathers or male elders hold authority over women and children within the family, as in the Roman patria potestas and manus maritalis, analysed by feminist theory, anthropology and sociology as a structure that varies across societies and eras, with related concepts such as neopatriarchy, heteropatriarchy and patriarchy in specific regions such as the Islamic world; the term is contested in scope and explanation.
What it is for: Not applicable; a social science concept.
It can be explain the concept; relay theories and evidence; describe variants neutrally; distinguish related terms.
Distinguishing features
Structural male power
Family and public spheres
Historical variation
Contested theory
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a social structure.
How it is recognised
Social system of male dominance
Roman patria potestas and manus, neopatriarchy, heteropatriarchy, patriarchy in the Islamic world
Patrilineality is descent through fathers; a patriarch is a religious title; individual behaviour is not a system
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is analysed by - among other approaches
is contrasted with - and with patrilineality
In practice
Families and kinds
classical patriarchy such as Roman patria potestas and manus maritalis
patriarchy in agrarian and religious societies
patriarchy in the Islamic world as analysed by scholars
neopatriarchy as theorised by Hisham Sharabi
heteropatriarchy in queer and feminist theory
patriarchy as a concept in kyriarchy and intersectional analysis
Standards and regulation
No regulation of the concept; equality and anti-discrimination laws address its effects
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting one theory as settled
Essentialising cultures or religions
Conflating patriarchy with individual men
Partisan framing
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What patriarchy is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is patriarchy as a concept, and how does it differ from patrilineality, religious patriarchs and individual behaviour? definition
- Is the question about the concept, a historical form, a region or a personal matter? boundary
Forms
Forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What were patria potestas and manus maritalis, and what are neopatriarchy and heteropatriarchy? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Theory Theories.
Attribution.
Feminist
Feminist theory.
Feminist
Feminist.
- How do feminist theorists from Millett and Walby to intersectional scholars analyse patriarchy, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Social
Anthropology and sociology.
Social
Social.
- What do anthropology, sociology and history say about the origins and variation of patriarchy, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Regions Regions and history.
Attribution.
History
History.
History
History.
- How have patriarchal structures changed from antiquity to modern legal reforms, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of women s rights? action
Regional
Regional analyses.
Regional
Regional.
- How do scholars analyse patriarchy in the Islamic world and other regions, with positions attributed and without essentialising? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Debates.
Context.
Debates
Debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates exist about the usefulness and scope of the concept, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How is patriarchy discussed in literature, media and public debate? provenance
- Which entry fits gender in media? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should patria potestas and neopatriarchy be separate primary entries?
- How should social science sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming regional and theoretical variants; should they be split off?