patriarchal
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- adjective
- /ˌpeɪtriˈɑrkəl/
- Literature
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patriarcal
- She has dedicated her career to analyzing the effects of patriarchal structures on gender equality.
- patriarchal society
- patriarchal system
- patriarchal culture
And there's a lot more, as you say, patriarchal, matriarchal influence.
- And there's a lot more, as you say, patriarchal, matriarchal influence.
- So young boys are carrying with them this patriarchal system.
- What you're suggesting you hear sounds ancestral and patriarchal and and restrictive.
- This was all appeasement by the Democrats to defer to patriarchal systems.
- Indeed, trans people are a huge wrench in this whole patriarchal system.
- So one of the common characterizations of culture is patriarchal culture, let's say.
- For example, does this new world have to be patriarchal?
- I mean it really actually, I just thought about this right now the the patriarchal work week works really well for men.
- And, and bulk in some ways presents itself as antithesis of those traditional patriarchal religious values.
- I, I think about this as a woman, you know, growing up in, you know, largely A patriarchal, you know, structure and society.
- Womanhood in the United States is a colonial white supremacist construct and it's a patriarchal construct.
- And so here we have a radical new kind of system which I think has enlarged the potential for patriarchal domination by men of women.
Examples
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In both Iran and Morocco, for example, the state, the family, and economic forms of dependency create what Magadan calls the patriarchal gender contract.
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Themes of sexual repression and patriarchal oppression dominate the first part of the novel.
Academic text (1990) -
So young boys are carrying with them this patriarchal system.
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It's interesting, I noted out loud, that a country as patriarchal as Russia should have a female president.
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It really speaks to the truth that is the power of our patriarchal society.
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Turkish society is accepted as highly patriarchal, with clear-cut gender role differences.
Academic text (2008) -
She's making a statement about the difficulties women face maintaining high self-esteem in a patriarchal society.
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Our job now is to do everything we can to overthrow the restrictive patriarchal norms of the past.
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Many Georgia Cherokees had converted to Christianity, acquired English literacy, and established patriarchal households.
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Many people in our community are challenging the longstanding patriarchal traditions that limit women's roles.
Synonyms
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Putting men's views and power first and ignoring other perspectives
A society where men hold power and inheritance goes through the father
A society or government where men hold most power
Giving most power to the father or male head of a family
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
A cross with two horizontal bars, the top bar shorter than the bottom, used in Eastern churches
How Patriarchal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Patriarchal comes from two parts: patri- meaning 'father' and -archal meaning 'rule' or 'leader'. So patriarchal is like 'rule by fathers', which is why it describes a family or society where men have most of the power.