Podcast: In Solidarity - by openDemocracy (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Planet Patriarchy
Pub date: 2025-07-23

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Patriarchy refuses to die. In every country of the world, women are oppressed by male violence, patriarchal religions, and ideas of the family. But women are resisting, as Rahila Gupta explains, in a fascinating analysis that takes us from Riyadh and Russia, to Rojava. 

Buy Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism and Oppression: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781805262879

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In Solidarity is openDemocracy’s podcast about people, power, and politics. Support the show by visiting https://www.openDemocracy.net/donate/

Credits:

Presented by Sian Norris

Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu

Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:30 Why write Planet Patriarchy now?

03:37 The violence of patriarchy

09:47 Family can be a form of violence

11:32 The women-led revolution in Rojava

16:56 The privilege of non-violence

21:07 Rojava's fragile future

22:31 What does solidarity mean to you?

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