Примери за matriarchy

• In the nineteenth century, anthropologists were fascinated by matrilineal descent, which they confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy.

• Patriarchy gave way to the disorder of matriarchy.

• They came close to uncovering matriarchy.

• One finds in many primitive countries that a matriarchy gives one a much more stable community.

• The notion of matriarchy was meant to describe something like a utopia placed in the past in order to legitimate contemporary social criticism.

• While "matriarchy" sometimes means the political rule of women, that meaning is often rejected, on the ground that matriarchy is not a mirroring of patriarchy.

• However, unlike a matriarchy, the political power tends to be in the hands of males.

• Matriarchy is rare in the animal kingdom as a whole but common among lemurs.

• She has also defined "matriarchy" as characterized by the sharing of power equally between the two genders.

• Some advocates complained that the rule had the effect of breaking up marriages and promoting matriarchy (see also single-parent family).

• Segments of society were characterized by matriarchy and matrilineal succession -- which survived well into the 19th century -- cross-cousin marriage, and strong regional identity.

• There is some debate concerning the terminological delineation between "matrifocality" and "matriarchy".

• Yet, it is expressed throughout the film by the women that they do not consider their society to be a matriarchy.

• The first planet he visits has been completely destroyed, the second is a gerontocratic travesty of a democracy, and the third is a repressive matriarchy.

• Thus was evidence of the original matriarchy written out of history almost before it was written in.