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My Three Dads : Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is My Three Dads : Patriarchy on the Great Plains about?
**Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.** For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the American ideals of god, home, and country. But for those like Jessa Crispin who have grown up in Kansas, the realities are much harsher. She argues that the Midwestern values we cling to cover up a long history of oppression and control over Native Americans, women, and the economically disadvantaged. Blending personal narrative with social commentary, Crispin meditates on why the American Midwest still enjoys an esteemed position in our country's mythic self-image. Ranging from __The Wizard of Oz__ to race, from chastity to rape, from radical militias and recent terrorist plots to Utopian communities, __My Three Dads__ opens on a comic scene in a Kansas rent house the author shares with a (masculine) ghost. This prompts Crispin to think about her intellectual fathers, her spiritual fathers, and her literal fathers. She is curious to understand what she has learned from them and what she needs to unlearn about how a per
Who reads My Three Dads : Patriarchy on the Great Plains?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jessa Crispin
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782021062380
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Biography
