Rethinking Men's Health and Illness: The Relevance of Gender Studies
- 1 January 1995
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
Someone once said that “the fish are the last ones to discover the ocean.” So it is with men and patriarchy. Feminist scholars long have emphasized the analysis of patriarchy—that is, social hierarchies that are male dominated. Gerda Lerner (1986), for example, defines patriarchy as, the manifestation and institutionalization of male domination over women and children in the family and the extension of male dominance over women in society in general. It implies that men hold power in all the important institutions of society and that women are deprived of access to such power. It does not imply that women are either totally powerless or totally ...Keywords
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