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How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy

How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy

Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.

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Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Areo Magazine in July 2017.

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