patriarchy

[ US /ˈpeɪtɹiˌɑɹki/ ]
[ UK /pˈætɹɪˌɑːki/ ]
NOUN
  1. a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
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How To Use patriarchy In A Sentence

  • This is the basic economic pattern of patriarchy, which is a different thing to capitalism.
  • The assumption that gender parity in all things is inconducive to sustainable propagation arrives at the footstep of the ideas in Steve Sailer's article "The Return of Patriarchy?". The Audacious Epigone
  • “Fight Club” is a critique of patriarchy like a non-fat, artificially sweetened white chocolate mocha is a critique of sugary coffee drinks. Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club
  • Have you ever thought how great it would be if someone took the ickiest aspects of monogamous lifestyle BDSM, blended it with a double measure of religious-right patriarchy, then added a generous sprinkling of disturbing domestic violence? Happy Slapping
  • We don't have to live according to the rules of the patriarchy.
  • In Europe, patriarchy flourished as institutions such as the family, the guild, and the university evolved to restrict or exclude women's presence and power.
  • What bits of patriarchy, or male dominance, remain in western society?
  • Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
  • This reading certainly invites us to look at Timon as an early modern critique of the growing and rapacious power of capitalism, which robs the aristocracy of its idealized form of patriarchy, based upon oligarchic, homosocial bonds.
  • Leave aside for a moment the critics who recoil at the symbols, the patriarchy, the very use of the term purity, with its shadow of stains and stigma. Hullabaloo
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