In this episode we explore the history of patriarchy, and look at how the nuclear family structure isn't a natural evolution but a deliberate product of capitalism, designed to control and exploit women's unpaid labour.



Join Triploi as we look into all the systems that came together to create the modern prison of gender roles, and why true equality is impossible until these systems are dismantled.

References and reading list:

• Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (2019)


• Denise Comanne, How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women (2010)


• Nancy Fraser, Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History (2012)


• Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860" (1966)


• Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)


• Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home (1989)


• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)


• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972)


• Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (1973)