Sentences with phrase «patriarchal authority»

Respecting women too much to see them as passively carried along on the wave of events, Lasch insists that women themselves bear a share of the responsibility for the replacement of patriarchal authority with new forms of social discipline.

The exhibition surveys the representation of the Devil from the 16th through the 20th century, tracing his evolution from the bestial enemy of mankind and Christ in the earlier period, to his perception by the Romantics as a sort of noble rebel against patriarchal authority, to an insinuating dandy, to his virtual absence in the 20th century (in all but advertising and entertainment) as people increasingly recognised that we create our own hell on earth.

Buckman takes issue with that commanding voice, teasing out how patriarchal authority insidiously permeates our ideas of femininity and the ways we practically deal with women's bodies... [Her works] get at ideas about the feminine — how it is a complex blend of that «soft hand» weaponized when curled into a fist, when imprisoned inside a glove, in those instances when a woman has to fight.»

Many of the works in Judge, for example, take aim at patriarchal authority, attempting to undermine its monolithic power through ridicule.

It's the tale of a courageous African American artist who defies patriarchal authority — and the mayor of New York City — to fight for freedom of expression.

So the notion of patriarchal authority that my generation has been rebelling against isn't anything to do with Jesus.

Levine's appropriation series became a symbol of post-modern movement and highly - discussed theme, both praised and attacked as a feminist takeover of patriarchal authority.

Artists Sarah Beddington, Beth Collar, Aleksandra Domanović, Mathilde ter Heijne, Aura Satz, Maud Sulter, Niina Vatanen and Ye Funa actively challenge the institutional structure of history and patriarchal authority — and imagine alternative narratives, often through the specificity of lens - based media.

«Unfortunately for these great familial expectations, Ellen and Gonzalve wed in an era when the claims of patriarchal authority were adjusting to a subtle challenge from the romantic temper of the times and the nascent springs of feminine autonomy.