Women, Society and Constraints: A Collection of Contemporary South African Gender Studies

This title explores the impact of patriarchy on women in past and present societies, and it specifically addresses the tenacity of partriarchal systems of thinking and behaviour. This title also reveals how patriarchal system impact on the socio-economic life of women across class and race. The reader will perhaps be surprised to discover that there are many similarities between the way in which women are represented in the accounts of acient historians and the stereotypical perceptions women in the modern world advertising.