For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal
presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their
male allies. "Sexual harassment" has entered common parlance;
police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of
the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a
woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016
United States presidential election. But have we really reached
equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push
exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be
modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports,
renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of
everyday patriarchy-in how Syrian women civil society activists
have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how
sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news
organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General's post has
remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and
skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations.
Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting
curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining
patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and
globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist
self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure
complements resistance.
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