Both Uses of
patriarchy
in
A Room of One's Own
- The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy.†
Chpt 2 *
- What genius, what integrity it must have required in face of all that criticism, in the midst of that purely patriarchal society, to hold fast to the thing as they saw it without shrinking.†
Chpt 4patriarchal = relating to a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
Definitions:
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(1)
(patriarchy) a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
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.