(1) Characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
(2) Relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
(1) Like so many other women caught in war zones, these women are victims of a violently eroding patriarchal system.
(2) She has totally internalised patriarchal values that are common to our society.
(3) Recognition that the power structure is also patriarchal helps to explain much of the resistance.
(4) Parents enjoy a patriarchal status and the father claims the best chair near the fire.
(5) Her mother wants to be sympathetic, yet as a representative of her father's patriarchal power, she can only follow the script laid out for her.
(6) In this sense the representations of motherhood potentially extend far beyond patriarchal ideology.
(7) For decades, international development agencies skirted gender issues in highly patriarchal societies.
(8) Despite his living in a rigidly patriarchal society his strongest and most memorable characters are all female.
(9) I am also conscious of my identity as a writer within a patriarchal culture.
(10) She then received patriarchal permission to pursue kinship with offspring of creditable lineage!
(11) All the sampled groups clearly exhibit patriarchal structures, including those relevant to marriage.
(12) A feminist might see it as an instrument of patriarchal oppression.
(13) In a patriarchal society men fear independent autonomous women.
(14) In short, patriarchal society values masculine gender roles only when they are performed by males.
(15) Big farmers in the area come from a strongly patriarchal and feudal background.
(16) She has rejected the patriarchal society and a traditional marriage.
(17) Our family was a traditional patriarchal family, with my Dad at the helm.
(18) Not to mention any number of grouchy patriarchal husbands and avid sugar daddies.
(19) When they become guerrillas the women set themselves free from patriarchal bonds.
(20) As such, it allows for changing and evolving structures that exist outside of the patriarchal power system.
(21) Funny, I think, how all this is going down without any kind of patriarchal supervision.
(22) Rules such as these may be acquired during childhood and may reflect the patriarchal values of society.
(23) His role has been more patriarchal , in the family context.
(24) They were written in a highly patriarchal society where masculine domination was the norm.
(25) Coming from a patriarchal society, the responses to such questionnaires are interesting, if not very surprising.
(26) Previously, all western religions, even the masons, had been rigidly patriarchal .
(27) Patriarchal social structure, along with its other harms, fuels population increases.
(28) Inmates of various types were integrated into this patriarchally organized house.
(29) I believe that a rigidly Patriarchal culture cannot tolerate the empowered creative voice of Women.
(30) At the time it was clear that there was no chance of getting in touch with your self unless you had witnessed what nature had so perversely, so patriarchally , hidden from your view.