Examples of 'matriarchy' in a sentence
Meaning of "matriarchy"
Matriarchy (noun): A social system in which women hold the primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property at the specific exclusion of men
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- A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.
- A system of government by females (particularly as a kind of polity).
- The dominance of women in social or cultural systems.
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Matriarchy was followed by a restitution of the patriarchal order.
This is a story about three families in a matriarchy.
The idea of matriarchy makes me laugh.
It shows the scope of modern research on matriarchy.
Which became a matriarchy in a patriarchal system.
Matriarchy is almost unknown among mammals.
I disapprove of both matriarchy and patriarchy.
Matriarchy is also distinct from matrilocality.
The situation is rationalized in various ways by the matriarchy.
The basis of matriarchy is ultimately religious.
It appears to replace patriarchy with matriarchy.
Let the matriarchy begin.
Lay in the social order of matriarchy.
Matriarchy is no better than patriarchy.
One of the characters speak of a matriarchy.
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Feminists are against matriarchy just as much as they are against patriarchy.
It is neither built on patriarchy nor on matriarchy.
No matriarchy has ever survived.
So this was a charm for the matriarchy.
Their rhetoric recreated matriarchy as the female equivalent of patriarchy.
Consider only the myth of matriarchy.
The matriarchy is on the rise.
The result is not replacement of patriarchy by matriarchy but equality.
The matriarchy begins.
It conjures up a hypothetical and antediluvian matriarchy to evoke future victory.
Matriarchy is a balanced society.
I would hate to live in a matriarchy.
Matriarchy is rare in the animal kingdom as a whole but common among lemurs.
Women are in a different position in a matriarchy than they are out here.
I do not want to overthrow the patriarchy and implement a matriarchy.
Long live matriarchy.
Feminists use a double axe upright as a symbol of ancient matriarchy.
Matriarchy in feminism.
Another victim of the matriarchy.
This must be so because matriarchy demeans men and polygamy demeans women.
I was raised in something like a matriarchy.
The view of matriarchy as constituting a stage of cultural development is now generally discredited.
Islam forbids a matriarchy.
The move from primitive matriarchy to patriarchy indicated a step forward in human knowledge.
This country is a matriarchy.
Matriarchy is a social organizational form in which the mother or oldest female heads the family.
It is these people who can put through a cause such as matriarchy.
It is the matriarchy.
There is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between matrifocality and matriarchy.
The whole bloody place is the most unspeakable matriarchy in the history of civilization.
The biological father is thus usually faded from the family universe in a matriarchy.
Tahltan social organization is founded on matriarchy and intermarriage between two main clan designations.
It turns out then that we have not actually put a new matriarchy in place.
At the time of matriarchy and blessed time of the Amazons.
A society based on matriarchy.
