The Big Push

For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. &ldquo;Sexual harassment&rdquo; has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election.&#160;But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view?&#160;&#160;<I>The Big Push</I>&#160;exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia&#160;Enloe&#160;exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy&mdash;in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General&rsquo;s post has remained a masculine domain.&#160;Enloe&#160;then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations.&#160;Encouraging self-reflection,&#160;she&#160;guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, <I>The Big Push</I> is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance.<BR />