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In what ways does patriarchy manifest itself in law?
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In what ways does patriarchy manifest itself in law? In 1949 Simon Beauvoir, with her work titled "the second sex" who expressed the position of women down the ages, possibly creating a landmark in this area. As she said "...man defines woman not in herself but relative to him. He is the Subject. He is the Absolute-she is the Other. This attitude was portrayed in all areas of society- political, economic, social and very importantly legal; this giving rises to the principle of Patriarchy. By patriarchy feminists mean the ordering of society under which standards -political, economical, legal, social- are set by, and fixed in the interests of men, men more highly valued than women. We shall now move on to see how patriarchy manifests itself in law, despite some great improvements, even today. Men shaped law. Women were not even included. It was from the 17th century that the notion of equality...
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