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After Patriarchy: What Feminism Becomes When the Enemy Stops Being a Man

After Patriarchy: What Feminism Becomes When the Enemy Stops Being a Man

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CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN13: 9798235982611
Publisher: J.J. Ramos
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

For two centuries, feminism organized itself around an enemy that had a face. The father, the husband, the boss, the harasser, the legislator. A structure called patriarchy that, at its core, presupposed a patriarch.

That enemy has changed shape.

In After Patriarchy, J.J. Ramos argues that the structures most directly constraining women's lives in 2026 are no longer staffed by patriarchs. The hiring decision has migrated from a manager to a model. The credit decision from a loan officer to an algorithm. The reproductive choice from a husband or a state to a market. The reputational economy from the public square to the platform. None of these systems were built to discriminate. All of them produce gendered outcomes anyway. And a feminism that keeps fighting men as the central enemy when the constraint is structural will keep winning the visible battles and losing the systemic war.

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