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Although interpreted as a backlash against progressive movements, anti–gender ideology is driven by a stronger wish, namely, the restoration of a patriarchal dream-order where a father is a father; a sexed identity never changes; women, conceived as “born female at birth,” resume their natural and “moral” positions within the household; and white people hold uncontested racial supremacy. The project is fragile, however, since the patriarchal order it seeks to restore never quite existed in the form they seek to actualize in the present.

— Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler

An American, Henry Tuckerman, writing in the 1830s, said a litter he saw near the temple of Segesta in western Sicily "was rudely painted with the effigies of saints and martyrs." Late nineteenth-century writer Baron Gonzalve de Nervo reported seeing, on the north coast near Palermo, a small cart painted blue with images of the Virgin and saints on the side panels. His was an early description of the horses, which he said had colored plumes on their heads and wore harnesses with designs in copper or gilded heads of nails.

— Seeking Sicily by John Keahey (Page 29)