Societies that are today the most secular and the most generous with their underfunded welfare states will be the most prone to religious revivals and a rebirth of the patriarchal family.

Comments like “family culture is dying because of feminism” reflect a defensive stance rooted in fear. What’s at stake is not ...

Considering the positive effect that fathers have on their children's lives, if anything, the United States needs more ...

With her nonfiction debut, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers comfortably inhabits this mythic juncture, telling the stories of Black ...

The goal of the conservative movement is clear: to enshrine the white, heterosexual, and patriarchal family as the only acceptable form of kinship; and to enforce conformity to that ideal ...

What makes the family so potent for women’s unequal status? Feminists have convincingly argued that sex and power are the two central cogs in the wheel of patriarchy, the system by which men ...

Though these activists each began from distinct critiques and advanced their own agendas, children’s liberation – from the patriarchal family, from legal ownership, from economic dependency – was ...

The husband, pushed by his conservative, patriarchal family to get a job, becomes a backing dancer at an erotic dance theater and falls in love with the trans woman leading the troupe. The film ...

No more, no less.” Before the wedding, the film spends time showing Nawi’s patriarchal family construct and the complicated interrelationships within it. As head of household, Eree has two ...