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Design is the form we give to our ideas. Everything that is man-made is designed. It includes both the things of the material world - like cars, sex toys, drills, bicycles, clothes - and the immaterial things like social design - public space, urban planning, but also language, laws and politics. [...] This book is about why the world is the way it is and why it doesn't suit so many people. And what we can do to change it. This is the story of the flower dress, like the story of the soccer shoes; the story of video games, sex and religion.” Why do women have to wait longer in the restroom line? Why are power tools more comfortable for men? Why do the vast majority of computer games cater to the interests and whims of men? Could it be that patriarchy itself is the designer that shapes our material world, all our stuff? In The Patriarchy of Things, Rebekka Endler traces the male-dominated design that dominates the material world we live in: Not only everyday objects such as office furniture or jeans, but also the architecture, infrastructure and transportation arrangements that make up the public sphere, even the diagnostic and therapeutic methods used in Western medicine. The Patriarchy of Things takes a feminist look at the built environment we take for granted - and invites us to a new awareness of the male-dominance embedded in things.