The Creation of Patriarchy
- 1st
- Oxford University Press, 1986
- 328
This book dramatically reopens a chapter of women's history that historians had thought was forever closed to them - the origins of the collective dominance of women by men. A Note on Definitions, A Note on Chronology and Methodology, Introduction, Origins, A Working Hypothesis, The Stand-In Wife and the Pawn, The Woman Slave, The Wife and the Concubine, Veiling the Woman, The Goddesses, The Patriarchs, The Covenant, Symbols, The Creation of Patriarchy, Appendix: Definitions, Notes, Bibliography, Index.