Sentence examples for patriarchal constructs from inspiring English sources

Payant makes use of Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of living "on the borderlands" to describe the experience of Cisneros's Chicana characters who, in addition to their struggle to overcome patriarchal constructs of their gender and sexual identity, must negotiate linguistic and cultural boundaries.

I believe that marriage is a patriarchal construct, which disproportionately benefits men.

I had conformed to the patriarchal construct of how women should behave.

The project was titled after Adrienne Rich's seminal feminist text, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, in which she analyses the patriarchal construct of motherhood and discusses why it is such a problematic topic for many feminists.

But even with this Norman Rofkwell-ization of my life (or as some of my SF friends might call it, this surrender to conformity and patriarchal social constructs), I refuse to disavow my decade of dick hunting.

An unapologetic examination of woman untethered from patriarchal, capitalist social constructs, Bad Bad Woman serves as a pivotal moment of social investigation at this year's Satellite Art Show.

In many ways horror films bring to the fore issues that are otherwise unspoken in patriarchal culture – which itself constructs female sexuality as monstrous".

I've seen dozens of articles about real life Fight Clubs, about "constructs of masculinity", patriarchal power, and similar.

Yet, as Panahi elegantly shows, masculinity and patriarchal rules are just as constructed as roles in a film.

Olga Paz, from the civil organization Colnodo, explained that constructing inclusion programs in a patriarchal environment where gender roles reproduce inequalities, particularly for women, is challenging.

But I also learned that there is a hierarchy to single motherhood, one that has been historically constructed by societal norms and patriarchal influences but still rules with a tyrannical hold today.