Origins of the patriarchy

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I've been reading a few books lately on feminism but none of them seem to give any clear history of the patriarchy. It all seems very vague and I wonder if anybody here can clarify its origins. Cheers.

So, to be clear: because you can't find a book entitled "The Big Book of Patriarchy" that is a comprehensive history of patriarchal society- not just one but all of them- patriarchy doesn't exist?

Not to mince words here, but that's really, really fucking dumb. Not only are you attempting to draw lengthy, blanket generalizations from the lack of a one stop shop of information for yourself, you're doing so based on an utter misunderstanding not only of patriarchy, but of society as a concept.

History is long and varied, and societies tend to bounce off of one another as they meet and fight and stop fighting for a bit; you're talking about a concept that began before there was an adequate system of record keeping, that is both incredibly diffuse in terms of where patriarchal ideas began in various cultures, and interconnected via the ways each culture interacts with one another. It is simply too old, too ingrained and too common an idea to trace its ancestry back.

You know what this is like? It's like if I came here asking for a book on the origin of gods, literally of the concept of divinity itself: it's a subject that's way too ancient to know the very first god concept ever invented, right?

So you tell me that, and in turn I stamp my foot and conclude that therefore religions don't exist.

Ridiculous, right?