If you look at the book A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf you can see many signs of patriarchy. This is because in the years that this book took place women had no rights to do anything other then what their husbands or fathers told them to do. They didn't have the right to go to school or even to own land. Women do not have the right to write about men but men write about women all the time.
She seems to be talking a lot about how there is a difference between the rights of men and women. She talks about how Men are aloud to write about women but women writers are not aloud to write about men."The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor." (Woolf page 33)
"Women do not write books about men- a fact... the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would have flowered twice before I could set pen to paper." (page 27)
If someone came from another country or even another planet and looked at the Washington Post I think that they would think that our country is a some what of a patriarchy. I think this because a lot of the titles on our News papers sound kind of manly. Many of these titles are about things that are about things man like or are interested in.
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