Patriarchy is best defined as control by men. The opposite is matriarchy which means women are in charge and the head of families. Obviously, the culture of the United States and most other countries is patriarchal.
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Nevertheless, however understandable and accurate this appraisal of the tenacity of male dominance, the emphasis on a supra-historical patriarchy discourages scholars from examining and defining more specifically and historically the construction of modern and contemporary male domination.
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Just a quick question about the term "patriarchy." Some of the people here at my university have recently stated how tired they are of hearing the term, how overused it has become, how meaningless, and so forth. Not all of these people were men or students.
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Some critics attribute these inequalities to a system of patriarchy, by which they mean a general complex of male domination that pervades ideas, institutions, and personal expectations throughout society. We ask here if this patriarchy has a historical dimension, a historical beginning, middle, and presumably an end.
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