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The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future 1st Edition

by Carol Gilligan (Author), David A. J. Richards (Author)
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Why is America again unjustly at war? Why is its politics distorted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage? Why is anti-Semitism still so powerfully resurgent? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of democracy. The book joins a psychological approach with a political-theoretical one that traces both this psychology (based on loss in intimate life) and resistance to it (based on the love of equals) to the Roman Republic and Empire and to three Latin masterpieces: Virgil’s Aeneid, Apuleius’s The Golden Ass, and Augustine’s Confessions. Democratic resistance in religion, psychology, the arts, and politics rests on free voices challenging patriarchal restrictions on the love of equals. In addition to examining why we are at war, this book explains many other aspects of our present situation including why movements of ethical resistance are often accompanied by a freeing of sexuality and why we are witnessing an aggressive fundamentalism at home and abroad.
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    November 10, 2008
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Gilligan and Richards leave few stones unturned in this exploration of patriarchy throughout time, beginning with ancient Rome, focusing on its diametric relationship with democracy: "we lack a critical public understanding of this tension, in part because... Roman patriarchy has been absorbed into our religion and political culture." The authors examine patriarchy in many literary sources, from Oedipus Rex and the Bible to Hemingway, Joyce and Freud. Among other themes, they find repeatedly that "exposing the psychology underlying patriarchy touches a nerve so sensitive that it becomes inflammatory," for reasons that include "the dynamics of shame and violence... how closely questions of honor are aligned with questions of gender," and "how intricately gender is woven into the body, into language, and into identity and culture." Authors and gender scholars Gilligan (Kyra, In a Different Voice) and Richards (The Case for Gay Rights, Disarming Manhood) make it clear that patriarchy is omnipresent in our society; discussion of matriarchal societies and literature would have made an enlightening counterpoint. This exhaustive study will be of particular interest to gender studies professionals and students.
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“The Deepening Darkness leads to the light of understanding that there can be no true democracy in public life until we have democratic families and connections in private life. Gilligan and Richards have proven this link. Now it's up to us to live it.”
Gloria Steinem

“This is a book with a grand thesis, and it should probably be thought of in the tradition of Hannah Arendt on evil, or Bruno Bettelheim. It argues that patriarchy remains the root of the evils of racism, sexism and much violence in contemporary society. More precisely, the book claims that patriarchy calls for and legitimates the traumatic disruption of intimate relationships, and the effect of such trauma in the human psyche is precisely to suppress personal voice and relationships and to identify with the patriarchal voice that imposed the disruption.”
Simon Goldhill, Professor of Classics, Kings College, University of Cambridge

“This historically probing, gracefully literary, and deliciously detailed book brilliantly illuminates the mysterious psychological roots of political domination and defiance.”
Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

“Far-ranging in its scope, compelling in its exposition and argument, informed by an inclusive, humane vision and imagination, this ambitious, richly perceptive synoptic study is firmly anchored in the insights and findings of recent scholarship. It brilliantly connects the ancient Roman world with our own. It illuminates as it forges other, riveting connections among a dazzling array of ostensibly disparate topics concerning contemporary Americans, and accords center stage to the role played by a series of canonized western literary masterpieces in making and sustaining these connections.”
Judith P. Hallett, Professor, Department of Classics, University of Maryland

“Carol Gilligan and David Richards have written a bold book that draws as palpably on their respective backgrounds in psychology and law as it does on their shared passion for literature. Using an immensely rich set of materials, they explore how patriarchy operates at the atomic level of human consciousness, and how, in doing so, it can destroy even its ostensible beneficiaries. These scholars see the world differently from you, and the book they have written may trigger a welcome conversion.”
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

“The Deepening Darkness is that rare thing – a cultural study that is not only a delight to read, but one with important practical implications. Gilligan and Richards expose the fundamental organizing role of patriarchy in western consciousness and show that we have been wedded to a false story about human nature, resistance to which is understood as pathology or sin. They provide fascinating descriptions of the error being transmitted through social institutions, and point out its malignant impact on men and women alike. For example, they trace clearly how even psychoanalysis, which began by liberating the individual, became oppressive due to Freud's inability to escape the patriarchical demands embedded in his own psychology.”
Owen Renik, former Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (November 10, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521898986
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521898980
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.59 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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  • Miss B
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance & Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David AJ Richards
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014
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    In this important and fascinating book, the authors bring together the fields of psychology, gender studies, literature and political science to illuminate the impact of patriarchy on men and women and how this impact has compromised the democratic state in the past and how it will, in the long-term, threaten the realisation of full democracy not only in the United States of America but, by implication, in the many fledgling democracies around the world. While the subject matter is scholarly, the writing is clear and accessible to the lay reader and I found this a quick non-fiction read (which is not always the case with non-fiction). I enjoyed the way the authors use “case studies” from literature to bring their theories and observations to life (e.g. Virgil’s 'Aeneid' or Tolstoy’s 'Anna Karenina') and I took away new insights into these works together with a better understanding of the main themes of 'The Deepening Darkness'. This book rings true and it does not leave one with a negative view of men – it simply brings home the damage done to men and women by patriarchy and, if anything, deepens respect and empathy between the sexes. I liked this book very much for that. I found the book a little repetitive at times but this does not detract too much from the reading experience. I purchased the Kindle Edition and would not recommend this for readers busy with research. There is no pagination in the Kindle Edition which will make it difficult to cite information or quotations from the book. I found that when linking to a reference in the footnotes/ bibliography I could not get back to my place in the text, so I had to leave reading the footnotes until the end which is not ideal. Some books I consider “life books” in the sense that they make a contribution to one’s life and this was a life book for me – a worthwhile read.
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  • Patricia A. Roberts
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for those wondering why patriarchy persist
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2020
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    This book offers historical background for our current political moment and how a patriarchal has stolen the ideals of democracy. Great book, lots to think about.
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  • Sarah E. Burns
    5.0 out of 5 stars In an rich exercise in making the obvious visible, ...
    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2015
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    In an rich exercise in making the obvious visible, this book traces some historical, cultural and psychological roots of the strategic uses of trauma in establishing and maintaining gendered/male over female,in contrast to coequal, governance in nation-state and religion. With their thoughtful rereading of history and literature, Richards and Gilligan point the way to important needed work. A provocative read for those concerned about resisting trends of subordination.
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  • Violet L. Weinberg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great history
    Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2017
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    Learned a lot about the history of patriarchy
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  • Alep
    5.0 out of 5 stars Why turn the erudite review of a very good book into a vicious anti-semitic tirade?
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2009
    As the above reviewer says this is a splendidly written, and extensively documented work. Yet his review is full of venom, spiteful innuendos, and ends in a vicious and off-the-point anti-semitic tirade.

    The authors start by analyzing written Roman records ranging from poetry to the law in order to explain various features of patriarchy. By doing so they convincingly show that Roman patriarchy still pervades the Western - and one would add the non-Western- world.
    As the reviewer acidly says "The authors employ the by-now standard postmodernist techique of close reading of texts selected by them, through which they construct "voices" that convey to us the desires, disappointments, and resistances" of the times.
    Saying this the reviewer reduces a rich and brilliant text to a well-prepared, ready-made recipe with no originality or depth.
    Given the scarcity of Roman women's writing Gilligan and Richards are also accused of reconstructing practically from nowhere stereotypical views of women and men.
    Strangely we continue to find such alleged stereotypes in the vast literature handed down through the centuries and in most societies contemporary or not.....
    The reviewer condescendingly concedes that the authors convincingly show the pivotal role of Augustine in transforming Christianity into a sexually repressive culture fostering the "madonna" "whore" splitting of women and the equally oppressive split between the "macho" and the "feminized" man. He also concedes that one of the most valuable aspects of the book is "the brilliant explication of Judaism as a despised, effeminate religion" as seen by the Romans, and later by Augustine and his followers up to the present.

    Having analyzed the origins and sources of the 'darkness' the authors proceed to analyze traces of it in fields ranging from psychology, to the arts, and politics.
    Againg the reviewer acknowledges that "The treatment of Freud's writing in the segment addressing psychology is well done, the authors' argument being coherent and lucid." But immediately he launches an attack accusing the authors of being stuck in views expressed in Freud's early writings claiming that histerics suffered "from reminescences". Freud hiself soon rejected the idea that histerics had been sexually abused, and the authors too do not adhere to this idea.
    Before concluding a long tirade against recontstructed memories even the reviewer feels symapthetic to the "judicious case being made by the authors". However -again an attack- as he adds, "I must reserve judgement on at least part of their critique. It is, nonetheless, well worth consideration."

    The final, most vicious, and unwarranted attack is on the views expressed by the authors on contemporary foreign policies.
    The reviewer takes just one (or perhaps two) phrases on Israel and says
    "It is here that the authors go seriously astray, and where the faults of the postmodernist treatment of real human events shows its flawed underside." These erudite words precede a viscious attack on Israel and the Jews seen as the symbol of contemporary oppression and non-respect of human rights. All the nasty anti-semitic tirade that follows makes the book sound as a pro-Israel, anti-palestinian manifesto. This is clearly not in the intentions of the authors, which are very balanced in their views. But reveals a lurking and chilling hatred in the reviewer......Indeed.
    PS I am not Jewish!
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