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matriarchy
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  • We were a matriarchal family because my grandfather died when he was a young man and left my grandmother to carry on, which she managed rather grandly.†  (source)
  • As we heard at the panel discussion yesterday afternoon, Gilead was, although undoubtedly patriarchal in form, occasionally matriarchal in content, like some sectors of the social fabric that gave rise to it.†  (source)
  • It had a matriarchal twang.†  (source)
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  • That they travel in matriarchal packs, and gestatefor 22 months?†  (source)
  • There were plenty of women around-between Barbara's sisters and Scripture's missionary ladies-and young Lavar was the pride of a matriarchy.†  (source)
  • China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are.†  (source)
  • The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.†  (source)
  • My childhood was spent in the Pueblo matriarchy, where women owned property, and children belonged to the mother's clan.†  (source)
  • His maternal ancestors crowded into his face when he was spurning at Arthur—ancestors whose civilization, like Mordred's, had been matriarchal: who had ridden bare-back, charged in chariots, fought by stratagem, and ornamented their grisly strongholds with the heads of enemies.†  (source)
  • We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.†  (source)
  • What we know is that just because a society is matriarchal, as ours is, it does not automatically mean that it is anti-male.†  (source)
  • Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.†  (source)
  • In the German spirit the matriarchal link with nature rules in the form of the hegemony of music to an extent unknown in any other people.†  (source)
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