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Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy

A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard

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The Role of Mother-in-Law in Keeping Patriarchal Structures Alive

Daughter-in-law dynamic is one of the main vectors for patriarchal structures. In patri-local cultures women leave their own family home to go and live with their husbands. It's only relatively recently that forced marriage has now been classified officially as a form of modern day slavery. All of this we know is in the service of this culture that serves men but we also have to live our lives and make it work somehow, she says.

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