A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.
Social system in which females hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control.
1 The easiest thing is to say it is a survival of matriarchy .
2 The truth is that I never fully bought the matriarchy idea.
3 And it's like the opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy -it's democracy.
4 I do not consider there was ever a matriarchy that was a utopia.
5 But feminism has reinforced rather than challenged -or even acknowledged - matriarchy .
6 These experiences, women feel, will create the matriarchy , or re-create it.
7 Was Walt afraid a matriarchy of some sort would develop?
8 There was also matriarchy -and there still is.
9 For instance, Maine regards matriarchy as a late Brahmanic intrusion on patriarchy, an inner growth.
10 Some time ago a scientist said that within 200 years U. S. would be a matriarchy .
11 As we have seen, women are looking at the matriarchy from a complex point of view.
12 The middle class may be becoming a matriarchy , but the plutocracy is as patriarchal as ever.
13 Nevertheless we cannot agree with Bachofen that a true matriarchy , or government by women, ever existed.
14 Brave hunters and attentive parents, they lived in a remarkably complex social structure-anda matriarchy as well.
15 The 99 percent matriarchy One of the great transformations of our age is the liberation of women.
16 To install a matriarchy in its place?
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