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Her mother wants to be sympathetic, yet as a representative of her father's patriarchal power, she can only follow the script laid out for her.
When they become guerrillas the women set themselves free from patriarchal bonds.
The cornerstones are methods of eliminating horizontal violence and hierarchical or patriarchal control.
Fiction of cultural resistance includes an inner discourse of resistance to patriarchal traditions in the Chicano culture.
This is the essence of the hold that Chicano patriarchal power has on many Chicanas.
Not to mention any number of grouchy patriarchal husbands and avid sugar daddies.
It would mean a re-evaluation of some of their most cherished beliefs about the oppressive nature of the traditional, patriarchal family.
Whether the male aristocrat's mistress was a noblewoman or a performer, the affair certainly remained a display of patriarchal power.
The ages of these veterans ranged from fifty-nine up to the patriarchal venerableness of nearly ninety.
These are the nuraghi, patriarchal fortress-villages dating back to Sardina's flourishing Bronze Age.
Many have even denounced the traditional family as a stifling, patriarchal institution, thereby fueling a middle-class backlash.
It's ironic that so many people use a patriarchal and racist ideology to critique what they think is an engine of oppressive authority.
Switzerland has long been a patriarchal society where women submit to the authority of their fathers and then to that of their husbands.
A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.
The roots of the substantialist way of seeing the world are Hellenistic and patriarchal.
She then received patriarchal permission to pursue kinship with offspring of creditable lineage!
The parable, like the stories of the heroic women who disobeyed, in effect subverts the patriarchal system.
Funny, I think, how all this is going down without any kind of patriarchal supervision.
Parents enjoy a patriarchal status and the father claims the best chair near the fire.
All the sampled groups clearly exhibit patriarchal structures, including those relevant to marriage.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was the portrait of an old man with a beautiful forehead and a patriarchal face.
In the same year, Pantaenus became the head of the catechetical school of the patriarchal Church of Alexandria.
The custom of the couvade may therefore perhaps be assigned to the early patriarchal stage.
At once I understood the urbanity and the gentlemanliness that must have existed in the patriarchal times.
Preceding the patriarchal period of paternal rule, there was maternal rule, gynecocracy.
The error, then, of Mr. Hunter is to confound the patriarchal with the Iron Age.
But what is true of the figures of the patriarchal sagas applies also, in part, to jahve himself.
One of the most cruel cases was that of Mr. Lowes, a clergyman, who had reached the patriarchal age of eighty.
He was a patriarchal giant of the wild, where endurance and lustihood mean so much.
But it does not follow that polyandry and a matriarchal state always and necessarily preceded polygyny and a patriarchal state.
In other stories, again, the deep-seated piety of the muzhik, and his patriarchal simplicity of heart are portrayed.
Side by side with these long secular changes, he evolved the family, communal or patriarchal, polygamic or monogamous.
He had a heavy, graying beard, and wore it with a patriarchal air.
Their article became a smoking gun to feminists who saw implants as a patriarchal plot.
Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist.
The patriarchal Bacchus quaffing in his antediluvian vineyard!
Bon's octoroon mistress leads a twilight existence of luxury, clouded and constrained by patriarchal domination and racist exclusion.
These restorations destroyed all the venerable dignity, cordiality, and patriarchal air of the old house.
The golden or Saturnian age, a patriarchal and peaceful age.
He was, in 1876, a man of venerable appearance, with white hair, worn long, and a patriarchal beard.
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