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Meanings of matriarchy in inglês

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A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.

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        Social system in which females hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control.

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              Usage of matriarchy in inglês
              1
              The easiest thing is to say it is a survival of matriarchy.
              The Meaning of Witchcraft
              2
              The truth is that I never fully bought the matriarchy idea.
              Disintegration: the splintering of black america
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              And it's like the opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy -it's democracy.
              Feminist dot com
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              I do not consider there was ever a matriarchy that was a utopia.
              Drawing Down the Moon
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              But feminism has reinforced rather than challenged -or even acknowledged -matriarchy.
              The Guardian
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              These experiences, women feel, will create the matriarchy, or re-create it.
              Drawing Down the Moon
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              Was Walt afraid a matriarchy of some sort would develop?
              Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
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              There was also matriarchy -and there still is.
              The Guardian
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              For instance, Maine regards matriarchy as a late Brahmanic intrusion on patriarchy, an inner growth.
              The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
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              Some time ago a scientist said that within 200 years U. S. would be a matriarchy.
              The new yorker
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              As we have seen, women are looking at the matriarchy from a complex point of view.
              Drawing Down the Moon
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              The middle class may be becoming a matriarchy, but the plutocracy is as patriarchal as ever.
              Reuters
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              Nevertheless we cannot agree with Bachofen that a true matriarchy, or government by women, ever existed.
              Sociology and Modern Social Problems
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              Brave hunters and attentive parents, they lived in a remarkably complex social structure-anda matriarchy as well.
              The Lost World
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              The 99 percent matriarchy One of the great transformations of our age is the liberation of women.
              Reuters
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              To install a matriarchy in its place?
              The Guardian