Darkness Now Visible
Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance

Offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

Carol Gilligan (Author), David A. J. Richards (Author)

9781108470650, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 August 2018

172 pages
24.1 x 16.4 x 1.3 cm, 0.41 kg

'Darkness Now Visible takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual journey into the heart of political darkness to set us on a path toward enlightenment. The complex analysis is unexpectedly comforting as it provides language and a framework for deeply desired change.' Terri Apter, author of Passing Judgment: Praise and Blame in Everyday Life

In the fall of 2016 those promoting patriarchal ideals saw their champion Donald Trump elected president of the United States and showed us how powerful patriarchy still is in American society and culture. Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy's Resurgence and Feminist Resistance explains how patriarchy and its embrace of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and violence are starkly visible and must be recognized and resisted. Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards offer a bold and original thesis: that gender is the linchpin that holds in place the structures of unjust oppression through the codes of masculinity and femininity that subvert the capacity to resist injustice. Feminism is not an issue of women only, or a battle of women versus men - it is the key ethical movement of our age.

Introduction
1. Patriarchy comes out of hiding
2. Infidelity and silence
3. Why didn't we see it?
4. Why now?
5. The endgame of patriarchy?
6. Maps of resistance
7. The power and invisibility of gender
8. Democracy's future
9. Why feminism and why now?

Subject Areas: Gender & the law [LAQG], Law & society [LAQ], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH], Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Feminism & feminist theory [JFFK], Society & social sciences [J]