Gender?Emergence?in?England?s?History?? ? "Historicizing?Patriarchy:?The?Emergence?of?Gender?Difference?in?England,?1660?1760"?by?Michael?McKeon? is?a?powerful?and?original?hypothesis?as?to?"how?and?why?the?modern?system?of?gender?difference?was? established?during?the?English?Restoration?and?eighteenth?century"?(295).?McKeon,?a?professor?of?English? literature?at?Rutgers?University?is?also?the?author?of?several?essays,?including?"Politics?and?Poetry?in? Restoration?England"?and?"Origins?of?the?English?Novel."?? ? McKeon?uses?the?term?'patriarchalism'?because?it?attaches?itself?to?a?"traditional?regime"?which?will?in?later? centuries?be?replaced?by?the?"modern?conception?of??gender?"?(296).?This?term?is?mainly?identified?with?as?