{"product_id":"after-patriarchy-what-feminism-becomes-when-the-enemy-stops-being-a-man-9798235982611","title":"After Patriarchy: What Feminism Becomes When the Enemy Stops Being a Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. J. Ramos\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: J.J. Ramos\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: J.J. Ramos\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women's Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two centuries, feminism organized itself around an enemy that had a face. The father, the husband, the boss, the harasser, the legislator. A structure called patriarchy that, at its core, presupposed a patriarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat enemy has changed shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn After Patriarchy, J.J. Ramos argues that the structures most directly constraining women's lives in 2026 are no longer staffed by patriarchs. The hiring decision has migrated from a manager to a model. The credit decision from a loan officer to an algorithm. The reproductive choice from a husband or a state to a market. The reputational economy from the public square to the platform. None of these systems were built to discriminate. All of them produce gendered outcomes anyway. And a feminism that keeps fighting men as the central enemy when the constraint is structural will keep winning the visible battles and losing the systemic war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is in four parts. Part I argues that the diagnostic concept of patriarchy has aged out. Part II maps the systems that replaced it: the algorithm as authority, the market as mother, the platform as public square, the optimization as norm. Part III refuses to dodge the internal feminist conflicts that surface when the external enemy weakens - over class, over race, over age, over what the word woman now names. Part IV is constructive: a feminism of structure (audit law, procurement, antitrust), a feminism of solidarity (care-worker organizing, the new feminist unionism), and a feminism of build (alternative infrastructure, women-led capital, the institutions the next wave will need).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the feminist tradition from Wollstonecraft and de Beauvoir to bell hooks, Kimberl� Crenshaw, Kate Manne, and Amia Srinivasan, and on the algorithmic-justice scholarship of Joy Buolamwini, Safiya Umoja Noble, Cathy O'Neil, and Ruha Benjamin, Ramos makes the case that retiring the inherited enemy is the precondition for the next stage of feminist work. The post-patriarchy fight is harder than the one before it. It is also more honest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The Right to Sex, Down Girl, Invisible Women, The Second Sex, and The Next Wave: Feminism After the Algorithm - written from the moment the inherited movement vocabulary stopped reaching the constraint it was supposed to name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J.J. Ramos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968535183511,"sku":"9798235982611","price":2373.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235982611.webp?v=1782918447","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-patriarchy-what-feminism-becomes-when-the-enemy-stops-being-a-man-9798235982611","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}