How the world of things forms a patriarchal system
Tina Hartmann, Elena Köstner (ed.): Patrix. Patriarchale Systematik und ihre Verdinglichung. transcript 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2025.371Keywords:
Androcentrism, Gender Stereotypes, Living Conditions, Norms, PatriarchyAbstract
The "patriarchy of things" paradigm presents a new way of analyzing the potency of gender stereotyping. The anthology "Patrix. Patriarchal Systematics and Their Reification", edited by Tina Hartmann und Elena Köstner, takes up this approach. Using various objects such as translations, schoolbooks, and online literature as examples, the materialization of stereotyped male and female bodies in the design of things is traced. The sense is heightened that design is always political and complicit in discrimination.
Some articles also highlight that women's experiences of discrepancy with the materialization of the idealized masculine demonstrates its patriarchal character and the failure of its all-encompassing claim to effectiveness.
References
Baudrillard, Jean (1991): Das System der Dinge. Über unser Verhältnis zu den alltäglichen Gegenständen. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus.
Endler, Rebekka (2021): Das Patriarchat der Dinge. Warum die Welt Frauen nicht passt. Köln: DuMont.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Andrea Günter
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
All contributions in Open Gender Journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. You may freely make use of the corresponding texts in accordance to the conditions of the license (License contract, generally understandable version). There is no exclusive transfer of usage rights ("copyright transfer"). Open Gender Journal does not charge authors any costs for publication (so-called Article Processing Charges, APC) or submission (so-called Submission Charges). Authors are encouraged to share their contributions in other places, such as repositories.
