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The Gender Knot : Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
author
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Johnson, Allan G.
publisher
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Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1566395194
print isbn13
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9781566395199
ebook isbn13
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9780585363196
language
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English
subject
Sex role, Patriarchy, Feminism.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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HQ1075.J64 1997eb
ddc
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305.3
subject
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Sex role, Patriarchy, Feminism.
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The Gender Knot
Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
Allan G. Johnson
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FOR NORA L. JAMIESON Life partner, dearest friend, comrade and soul companion in the long journey toward understanding how to live a life that makes a difference
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1997 by Allan G. Johnson All rights reserved Published 1997 Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
Text design by Kate Nichols
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Allan G. The gender knot: unraveling our patriarchal legacy / Allan G. Johnson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56639-518-6 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-56639-519-4 (alk. paper) 1. Sex role. 2. Patriarchy. 3. Feminism. I. Title. HQ1075.J64 1997 305.3dc20 96-41982
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CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
vii
Part I What Is This Thing Called Patriarchy?
1 Where Are We?
3
2 Why Patriarchy?
24
3 Ideology, Myth, and Magic: Femininity, Masculinity, and "Gender Roles"
53
4 Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us
75
5 Feminists and Feminism
99
Part II Sustaining Illusions, Barriers to Change
6 Thinking about Patriarchy: War, Sex, and Work
133
7 What Patriarchy?
155
8 It Must Be Women
181
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Part III Unraveling the Patriarchal Legacy
9 Shame, Guilt, and Responsibility
211
10 Unraveling the Gender Knot
232
Appendix: Resources for Unraveling the Knot
255
Notes
265
Index
289
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Gender Knot flows from many parts of my life. It is based on more than twenty years of work around issues of gender inequality, from reading and teaching and research to giving speeches at rallies to testifying before legislative committees to writing op-ed pieces to working in corporations and schools with men and women trying to understand what living in a patriarchal world is about.
It has been shaped by my experience growing up and living as a male in America. As a boy who liked literature more than football, for example, I often felt on the outside of the young-boy macho in-crowd, a vantage point that ultimately enabled me, I think, to see many things about gender more clearly and notice many other things that I would otherwise have missed. I've also had to come to terms with my mother and father and how their lives and our relationships were shaped by the choices they made within patriarchy as it shaped their generation. I've had to navigate the aggressive ritual of status competition among boys and men. I've had to move from avoiding men as dangerous and untrustworthy to, during five years in a weekly men's group, rediscovering what men can be beneath the distortions of patriarchal masculinity. I've had to resolve the massive contradictions between my need and love for women and the horrendous damage patriarchal culture does to gender relations and sexuality. I've had to learn to accept the social fact of my gender privilege and the damage it does to women, without taking it personally as saying something bad about me simply because I'm a man.
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This work has been touched in powerful ways by the people I've known who share in the struggle to understand what patriarchy means for the world and their lives. From knowing them has come an unshakable belief that oppression is not an inevitable feature of human life, that the choices each of us makes matter more than we can ever know, and that we must find ways for both men and women to become part of the solution rather than merely part of the problem.
This book comes from a place in me once described by a writer friend as "an edificial turn of soul." It bends me toward the underlying structure of things and the work of making sense and finding ways to share that with others. It draws me to build bridges that connect a diversity of life experiences, ideas, and ways of seeing, to create a common ground for people who might otherwise feel driven apart.
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