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Angela Saini, "The Patriarchs - The Origins of Inequality"

After Words

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The Role of Objectivity in the History of Knowledge

I think that one of the threads throughout all of your books that ties to what you just said is patriarchal control of knowledge and also as part of male domination. too I think that that is something that has plagued certainly feminist feminist concerns about addressing the histories that we have or reimagining the futures but continues to plague us yeah absolutely. You know when you're raised in a system that says the past was this way and when you go out to investigate the past these are the patterns you can expect to find it shouldn't surprise that us that historians and archaeologists then will discover things that don't fit in with those preconceptions and then really struggle with them.

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