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I have argued that the state is a patriarchal institution. But it does not follow from this that theories which oppose the state, have coherently constructed a world which looks beyond patriarchy. This is because theories which purport to be opposed to the state, can unwittingly embrace a statist logic. Hence they are not authentically antistatist at all, and they end up, despite their emancipatory intentions, endorsing rather than challenging, patriarchy.
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Hoffman, J. (2001). Patriarchy and Anti-Statist Theory. In: Gender and Sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288188_8
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