Patriarchy’s house of cards is tumbling down

At last, autonomy for women living in Ireland, autonomy taken from them for so very, very long writes Suzanne Harrington.

‘I MANAGED to fight off the dogmas of patriarchy, organised religion, capitalism, class deference, and respect for authority easily enough. How come I fell at the last fence and impaled myself on the railings of romance?” writes musician turned memoirist Viv Albertine in her new book To Throw Away Unopened.

“Mum alerted me to the fact that patriarchy and the romance narrative were wrong, but she didn’t have any suggestions for another path. She didn’t know of any. Where’s the advert on TV telling you to call a freefone number if you’ve been missold not a pension but a belief system?”