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patriarchy | American Dictionary

patriarchy
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpeɪ·triˌɑr·ki/
social studies
a form of social organization in which fathers or other males control the family, clan, tribe, or larger social unit, or a society organized in this way
social studies
Patriarchy is also the control by men, rather than women or both men and women, of most of the power and authority in a society.

Examples of patriarchy

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This situation has not arisen because they had a will to resist patriarchy.
Western feminists emphasized the role of patriarchy rather than global inequalities.
Under patriarchy, men have held the power to propagate images and attributions which are favourable to the continuance of their control.
What is at issue here, in addition to race, is patriarchy.
Nationalism is not a reflex of men's interests nor is patriarchy and the subordination of women automatically reinforced by nationalism.
I am suggesting that as the potency of humanist discourse evaporated so did crucial assumptions concerning the potency of patriarchy, male domination and masculine sexuality.
The authors' views of patriarchy and feminism may be explored in the characterizations of the novels' heroines.
This latter consideration does not licence a return to patriarchy, but it does recommend a willingness to share burdens between cohorts.
Yet arguments made by the judges and by lawyers have consolidated multiple patriarchies.
She says that modern feminist thought focused on the "problem of inequality," which it conceptualized in terms either of patriarchy or of capitalism.
This is what has enabled patriarchy to adapt over time, but also what has prevented the emergence of any tenable alternative code of masculinity.
Our nineteenth-century sources frequently project the norms of conjugal life as based on uninhibited patriarchy.
Thus, patriarchy encompasses issues to do with cultural values, the public-private divide, and sexuality as well as more obvious gendered concerns.
One could both maintain the hold of a (changing) patriarchy and be a modern, sensitive, nationalist man by becoming involved in children's education.
One of our most fundamental assumptions about patriarchy is, of course, its exertion of power over women.
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