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What is a matriarchy?

What is a matriarchy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.
  2. A system of government by females (particularly as a kind of polity).
  3. The dominance of women in social or cultural systems.
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MacLennan maintains the existence of matriarchy in promiscuity, but this is inadmissible.
The cause of this move from matriarchy, Mr Braudel argued, was neither a change in law nor a wholesale reorganisation of politics.
She is sceptical of the Western rejection of the term matriarchy as a failed mirror-image of masculinist terminology.
Getting rid of patriarchy is fine, but replacing it with an equivalent matriarchy solves nothing unless you're simply out for revenge.
She suggests that the symbol of the Amazon is associated with the symbol of the Great Mother and with matriarchy.
Whether or not Witchcraft was handed down in an unbroken line from time immemorial or whether there was ever a golden age of matriarchy is totally irrelevant.

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