Public patriarchies, public men, public domains, and public masculinities

In the last two chapters I have mentioned, somewhat in passing, a number of problems around the idea of ‘public patriarchy’. I now want to focus explicitly on some of these concerns. These stem largely from my attempt to hold together in tension two insights: that organizations and men (within them) are increasingly powerful in the public domains; and that the distinction between the public and private domains is itself problematic. Both represent an academic commentary on social change and a personal comment on my own experience of the relationship of the public and the private.