ABSTRACT
The beginning of the new millennium saw deepening interdependence across the world, continued de-industrialisation in the global North, and accelerating industrialisation in some regions of the global South. A common theme among young women repudiating feminism is that they no longer need liberation since they now have the same opportunities as men. The disputes about absolutism and democracy and the war over the family drew on longstanding debates about the society-wide implications of different models of childbearing. In attempts to build up their congregations, revitalise Christianity and bring men back to their faith, many churches have drawn extensively on the key themes of both the secular mythopoetic movement and men's rights activism. Patrimonialism, a conceptual kin of patriarchy, allowed Weber to think systematically about political systems in which rulers exerted power on the basis of a combination of familial ties, patron-client relations and personal allegiances, and were bound by few rules and regulations.
