patriarchally

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• Many cultures have been patriarchally oriented, prioritizing male leadership in community affairs.

• Among these were the women's movement, which criticized the patriarchally structured German society and sought emancipation and gender equality as laid out in numerous UN documents.

  Academic text (2002)

• Women need to justify themselves in a patriarchally run world; it doesn't mean that they were upset at being women.

  Blog text (20)

• Despite their shared financial security, she argues, their options were repeatedly limited by their lowered status as women in a culture of patriarchally organized wealth.

  Academic text (2004)

• If you do not get the implication, he is expressing insensitive, hateful, and patriarchally offensive speech towards women.

  Blog text (25)

• Proclaim a breakdown of the male/female differentiations so central to the patriarchally determined sociopolitical order.

  Academic text (2001)

• More than that, I feel as if our friendship enlivens the parts of me that are not wife or mother—not patriarchally defined—and our friendship exists above and beyond those labels.

  Blog text (5)

• (n107.) Id. at 73 ("The individual was confronted with a patriarchally ruled family and society from birth; until a man became the head of his own household, he was successively in the status of a filial inferior to his father, his master, and his employer. ...

  Academic text (2009)

• As Gayatri Spivak has noted, "in the new international economic order after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it is the labor of the patriarchally defined subaltern woman that has been most effectively socialized" (1999:68).

  Academic text (2005)

• In a patriarchally structured society, men often hold the highest positions of power.

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