Sample sentences for PATRIARCHY

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Definition

a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women

More rarely, patriarchy can refer specifically to a form of social organization in which men head families and title is traced through the male line.

We are working to displace the patriarchy in our society.

The patriarchal society of the Victorian age was in full swing in our drawing room.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
Only now he disguised it in the patriarchal style of an old man's memories so that it would not be too obvious that it was really a document of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
I'm not going to get sucked into that patriarchal institutional oppression again.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
That may be because an authoritarian and patriarchal home environment is mirrored in an authoritarian and patriarchal political system.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Next to the house there was a patriarchal elm tree, against the trunk of which Finny leaned and shouted at me as I ran a large circle around him.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
He was a heavy man with a patriarchal white beard, and of imposing stature.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
This lonely, unconsenting rebel battled against the patriarchal influences that had shaped my childhood: the American South and the Catholic Church.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Tradition it holds sacred; it is a patriarchal people; it cannot live without faith ....'
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
What if it lured him away from the patriarchal faith?
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
He made remarks that were not witty, whilst his chief launched forth patriarchal admonitions against the colliers.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
The simple, chilling fact was that Mahtob and I were totally subject to the laws of this fanatical patriarchy.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
And when I asked Alaska, she started yelling, 'You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.'
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
It's a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
They have, in the country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
As a person of color, you shouldn't have to fit into any white, patriarchal system.
ZZ Packer -- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
He was a stocky fleshy man in the middle fifties, with a ruddy face, a patriarchal beard, and the thick complacent features of his tribe.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

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