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