"The term ‘patriarchal’ refers to power relations in which women’s interests are subordinated to the interests of men. These power relations take on many forms, from the sexual division of labour and the social organisation of procreation to the internalised norms of femininity by which we live. Patriarchal power rests on social meaning given to biological sexual difference."

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Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory. (via sexismandthecity)

couldn’t have said it better