ma·tri·ar·chate

(mā′trē-är′kĭt, -kāt′)

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matriarchate

(ˈmeɪtrɪˌɑːkɪt; -keɪt)

(Anthropology & Ethnology) rare a family or people under female domination or government

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ma•tri•ar•chy

(ˈmeɪ triˌɑr ki)

n., pl. -chies.

1. a family, society, or state governed by women.

2. a form of social organization in which the mother is head of the family and descent is reckoned in the female line.

matriarchate

1. a matriarchal form of government.
2. a family, tribe, or other social group ruled by a matriarch or matriarchs. — matriarchic, adj.

See also: Government

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matriarchate - a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

matriarchy

social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"

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a mass-mediated atavistic discourse, representation, and belief grounded in natural hierarchy, heteronormative-patriarchy, hypermoralism, sexual dissemblance, wifedom, motherhood, beautification for others, erotophobia, phallic power, and racial loyalty that reproduces, maintains, holds together, and justifies jezebelian ho discourse and theology, the discourse on black ladyhood, the myth of the black matriarchate, and the black "nuclear" project in the name of black normalcy and racial progress.

The Bodies God Created: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture By Tamura Lomax Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2018, 288 pp., $25.95, paperback

In another case, I seized an opportunity to translate matriarkatet (the matriarchy) to "the matriarchate" which denotes matriarchy and connotes the (free) market as well as Mother Market, a concept/ character introduced in the same poem.

On Wrungness in Translation

And as for the female voice: first-wave feminism as epitomized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton contrasted a primordial matriarchate as a "golden age of peace and plenty" with a succeeding patriarchate as the "source of tyranny, wars and [all] social ills," while second-wave feminism, inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, combined the aforementioned "contempt" and "condemnation" of paternal dominance with the abandonment of an "essentialist" anthropology.

Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum of Patriarchy? Missing Fathers in the Films of Whit Stillman

His next act of manslaughter will be met with the wrath of the Earth Goddess, suggesting a domineering matriarchate embedded within the surface patriarchate.

Achebe's work, postcoloniality, and human rights

Seen from the perspective of the matriarchate, all marriage is an act of violence because it breaks in upon the closed circle of female unity, represented in the myth as the mother-daughter relationship and the all-female society of the girls picking flowers.

Loving maidens and patriarchal mothers: revisions of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and Cymbeline in Mrs. Dalloway

"Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 35 (1940): 386-97.

A transdiasporic paradigm: the Afoxe Filhos de Gandhy

'Tuangku Imam Bonjol ceased his attack on the matriarchate from a position of strength', bringing an end to 'a reformist war that probably would have permanently undermined the local matriarchate' (pp.

Jeffrey Hadler, Muslims and matriarchs; Cultural resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism