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ma·tri·ar·chate

 (mā′trē-är′kĭt, -kāt′)
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matriarchate

(ˈmeɪtrɪˌɑːkɪt; -keɪt)
n
(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.
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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: Women
1. a matriarchal form of government.
2. a family, tribe, or other social group ruled by a matriarch or matriarchs. — matriarchic, adj.
See also: Society
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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Noun1.matriarchate - a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female linematriarchate - a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
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.
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.
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.
His next act of manslaughter will be met with the wrath of the Earth Goddess, suggesting a domineering matriarchate embedded within the surface patriarchate.
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.
"Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 35 (1940): 386-97.
'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.