A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.
1 And in a matriarchate we should undoubtedly hear of the Eternal Masculine.
2 In the dimmest, oldest religions, nearest the matriarchate , we find great goddesses-typesof Motherhood, Mother-love, Mother-careand Service.
3 Theseus over the Amazons, and the rise of a new civic order on the ruins of a matriarchate ?
4 The primitive government was the Matriarchate .
5 That period was called the Matriarchate .
6 Professor Karl Pierson finds in the study of witchcraft some of the fossils that point back to the Matriarchate .
7 (3) Social Organization.--Thereis a possibility that features of a primeval matriarchate long survived; but there is no certain evidence.
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