Living with Patriarchy

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Within these different geographical contexts, a broadly defined notion of culture incorporates organizational cultures, subcultures of society, cultures of clans or tribes as well as national cultures, depending on the meanings ascribed to the notion by people in public and private spaces. The central question of the volume, which is addressed through a variety of data, different discourse analytical approaches and research methodologies, is: How is gender constructed in social life and in patriarchal systems through discourse in different parts of the world?

Michelle M. Lazar, National University of Singapore:
At a time when widespread public discourses about gender would have us believe that sexism and gender inequality are outmoded concepts today, this book powerfully testifies to their continued prevalence in contemporary societies. Based on an impressive diversity of national, cultural, and institutional contexts, Majstorovic and Lassen convincingly demonstrate that alongside the achievement of social progress for women, deep-seated patriarchal ideologies persist perniciously in a variety of forms, discursively and non-discursively, locally and globally.