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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patriarchy \Pa"tri*arch`y\, n. [Gr. patriarchi`a.]
The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.
--Brerewood.Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, in ecclesiastical sense, from Greek patriarkhia, from patriarkhes (see patriarch). Meaning "system of society or government by fathers or elder males of the community" first recorded 1630s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children. 2 A system of government by males. 3 The dominance of men in social or cultural systems. 4 (context Christianity English) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate.
WordNet
n. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line [syn: patriarchate]
Wikipedia
Patriarchy is the structuring of a society under male leaders.
Patriarchy may also refer to:
- Patriarchy, or patriarchate, the office or jurisdiction of an Eastern Orthodox patriarch
- Patriarchy, a 1980s Iranian TV series, known for its score by Bahram Dehghanyar
- "Patriarchy", the 2006 debut episode of the TV series Brothers & Sisters; see List of Brothers & Sisters episodes
- Patriarchy, a 2007 book about Indian feminism.
See also
- Patriarch
- Patriarch (disambiguation)
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property. In the domain of the family, fathers (or father figures) hold authority over the women and children. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage and descent is reckoned exclusively through the male line, sometimes to the point where significantly more distant male relatives take precedence over female relatives.
The female alternative is matriarchy.
Historically, patriarchy has manifested itself in the social, legal, political, and economic organization of a range of different cultures.
Patriarchy is a book written in 2007 by V. Geetha, an academic activist and writer on the subject of patriarchy in India. Patriarchy, written from the female perspective, is part of the "Theorizing Feminism" series published by Stree, which is an imprint of Bhatkal and Sen. There have been three different editions published.
Usage examples of "patriarchy".
Mother Nature and what anthropologists call matrilocal culture, to patriarchy- control and ownership by males.
All were superwomen, born of Chrysalis, and veterans of dozens of daring raids and rescue missions waged against the oppressive forces of patriarchy and misogyny.
Indra, the Vedic story goes, killed Danu, and patriarchy replaced ma trifocal Earth-centered social systems.
For their part, they were open minded when I insisted on wearing clothes to school and dating outside of my gender, although I could tell they thought I was being oppressed by the patriarchy and commodified by the Bank of America.
Postmodernist thought challenges precisely this binary logic of modernity and in this respect provides important resources for those who are struggling to challenge modern discourses of patriarchy, colonialism, and racism.
The patriarchy, however, is not something that needs to be reversed but rather something that needs to be outgrown: and that releases the male from blame and the female from sheepdom.
We speak of the free humans and those in the direct service of the kzin, but to our masters we of the 'free' are slaves of the Patriarchy who have not yet been assigned individual owners.
On the worlds of the Kzin Patriarchy they are our slaves and prey, and hardly a trace of their civilization remains except in our naval equipment&mdash.
Biology was an incredible and archaic patriarchy with many of the aspects of an old boy network: secret signs, passwords, rituals of indoctrination.
In consequence of all this, if as sometimes happened a raped Amazon had no chance to take revenge on her defiler before he released her, she was not obliged to kill herself, but she must live in exile, raising the consciousness of foreign women to the facts of their exploitation -- hence the isolated instances of Melanippe's countrywomen in such places as Corinth, where, while doing yeoman service, they quietly subverted the patriarchy.