[mā́trē-ärḱ]
(n.)A woman who rules a family, clan, or tribe.
(n.)A woman who dominates a group or an activity.
(n.)A highly respected woman who is a mother.
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Matriarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matriarchy (or gynecocracy ) refers to a gynecocentric form of society, in which the leading role is taken by the women and especially by the mothers of a community. There are no known societies th...
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Matriarchal religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matriarchal religion s are characterized by a feminine world view paradigm. Common traits are female oriented worship/celebration, the worship of a Goddess, fertility rites, positive meanings attribu...
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Matriarchy is a historical reality: there are examples of egalitarian societies and dominance of women ... One of the most persistent claims of feminist historians who concentrate in ancient and pre-historic societies has been the rebuttal of a possibility to a matriarchal society anytime in the distant past.
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Study of matriarchal societies world-wide ... Examples are American Indians, as well as several tribes in the Pacific's. None of references from Africa are documented on the web as possible candidates for women dominance. Several have indications of extreme male dominance.
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Eller's account of how the "matriarchal myth" originated follows the interpretation of nonfeminists such as Ronald Hutton: feminists are copying ideas that originated with Johan Jakob Bachofen in 1861. The Swiss philologist proposed an era of "unregulated hetaerism" in which women were sexually degraded and...
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A selection of articles related to Matriarchal ... A Wisdom Archive on Matriarchal ... Some traditional matriarchal societies have been found to exist still today in each continent, except Europe. Several of them have been presented by scholars and indigenous speakers from still existing matriarchal societies at two...
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