International: Patriarchy in secular and religious varieties
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Development WLUML networker Vivienne Wee argues that patriarchy is alive and well in secular as well as religious hierarchies. She suggests instead of talking about religious fundamentalisms we need to talk about equality versus hierarchy.
Submitted on Thu, 04/13/2006 - 23:00
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