Episode 50: The Gender Knot, by Allan G. Johnson
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.”
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.”
“…equality, security, liberty and dignity of all human beings.”
“as women held unquestioned power…attempts at total conquest of the continents were bound to fail.”
“If God is male, then the male is god.”
“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
“More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.”
“Growing up, metabolizing hatred like daily bread, because I am black, because I am woman…”
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism.”
“Black women…had to become strong, for their families and their communities…”
“.so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved.”