The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule – Powerful And Insightful Thoughts On Patriarchy

Angela Saini is a brave author who has written one of the most thought-provoking & breathtaking books that helps readers understand more about the history of patriarchy. The book provides a clear intellectual precision.

Besides, it is a necessary wake-up call that comes with plenty of research that has been done by the author. Though it is a hopeful read, many feminists would want to have a stake in existence.

Likewise, the author has managed to take a serious topic and make it quite entertaining as well, to help readers mould themselves into understanding the book. Besides, the author has showcased the fact that societies can live equally, and thrive – historically, now and everywhere.

The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini travels to the world’s earliest known human settlements. The author does some analysis of the latest research findings in archaeology. She then overturns simplistic universal theories to highlight how far patriarchy was during our ancestor’s time period itself, and how far we humans are yet to go.

The author has cleverly ended the book by asking what part we all play-women included-in keeping the patriarchal structures alive. Besides, why do readers and others alike, need to look beyond the old narratives?

Highlights of the Book

There are some books that manage to leave an indelible mark on readers, just after reading the first chapter. Readers get to learn astonishing new things and be enlightened on the nuances of the society that they are living in.

The book can provide readers with authentic information, and evidence through history. Besides, it can amaze some readers as to how we have spent an eternity and not bothered about some trivial things.

There are some origins of patriarchy that don’t seem to abide well with many. Sadly, it has managed to take over the world, and despite all the advancements, humans are nowhere in sight of any development in women’s power.

We have allowed it to become a gradual process around the human civilization. Some of us did not know where it was taking us but just went with the flow.  As long as it did not affect the family, the community, and women, then it was fine.

It is heartening to read & find out about how many historians, archaeologists, and research scholars as well, have dedicated their whole lives to understanding how the patriarchal transition to humankind occurred.

There has always been some form of resistance to it, but they have been unsuccessful apparently. We, humans, are neither culprits nor the victims. Unfortunately, the real culprits are capitalization, wars, religion, and slavery.

In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present.

The book has been authored by one of the world’s top 50 thinkers according to Prospect magazine. In 2018, the author was voted one of the most respected journalists in the UK.

Conclusion

Written & penned by an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster, readers will understand through this well-documented account of how societies destroy themselves by putting women down.