Open AccessBoys and Patriarchy
Author(s) -
Terry Trowbridge
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of family and youth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1718-9748
DOI - 10.29173/cjfy29460
Subject(s) - feeling , paternalism , patriarchy , poetry , gentry , domestication , sociology , escarpment , gender studies , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , psychology , art , history , social psychology , ecology , literature , political science , law , biology , archaeology
This poem examines some of the feelings of paternalism the author had for small lizards, insects, and arachnids that he encountered in the forests of the Niagara Escarpment, when he was in early grade school. As a child, unrequited feelings of paternalism made the world of non-domesticated animals a mystery. Only later in adult life did he interrogate these early memories of encounter with animals as part of a gendered society.