Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan Naomi Snider

Author:Carol Gilligan,Naomi Snider
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2018-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

A Summary

Naomi and Carol: Patriarchal gender roles serve a defensive function—and yet are also pathological. While it is true that the patriarchal codes of manhood and womanhood feed on a psychology of loss (the move from protest to despair to detachment), this psychology of loss in turn perpetuates the political order. Specifically in order to defend against a loss that has come to seem irreparable, we denigrate and detach from those very relational capacities necessary for repairing the ruptures that patriarchy and all forms of hierarchy create. Women who follow the path of “selfless” detachment (or anxious attachment) disavow or dissociate themselves from an honest voice—the voice that speaks from experience—thus disabling their ability to register and protest against experiences of violation or subordination. Men who follow the path of “selfish” detachment (or compulsive self-reliance) disconnect from their emotional radar, disabling their ability to empathize or care, and by doing so undermine their ability to register what is going on around them, or to repair the violations they suffer and inflict on others. A psychological pathology thus becomes a political liability because by subverting the ability to repair relationship, these dysfunctional defenses against loss not only stand in the way of love but undermine the ability to resist injustice.

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