A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women\'s studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis.
As Patriarchy as a system of organizing society was established historically, she contends, it can. in the Ancient Near East.
Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.
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A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women\'s studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis