I believe that patriarchy is a no-win situation wherein grand portions of our lives remain hidden, secret, unnoticed, and malnourished. Jacques Derrida discusses binaries in terms of the way that meanings of words are determined through their opposite meanings. Derrida deconstructs the assumption that truth and reality are constructed through binaries. Feminism utilizes this model to question the rendering of the right side of the dichotomy always lesser, always submissive to the first. Feminisms might take on as its task threatening the patriarchal order.
Some words refuse to be stable enough to be assigned a simple meaning.
These concepts are words whose definitions change and grow and shrink as their names transcend contexts, circulate, and die. I position concepts into binary relations mostly because they come packaged that way in discourse. Conceptuality itself is steeped in oppositions. This question of conceptuality is the major theme in this concept book. Each concept embodies a theoretical consideration and travels along an opposition divide searching for a bridge, or an entirely new landscape.