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What is a patriarchy?

What is a patriarchy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anthropology, historical) A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.
  2. A power structure in which men are dominant.
  3. (Christianity) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate.
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With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony.
Aspects of patriarchy, in my opinion, have become co-opted by commercialism and corporatism.
Private patriarchy became increasingly circumscribed by laws that undermined male authority within the family.
Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy.
The lookism in our community keeps the binds of patriarchy firmly in place.
She is in many ways articulating an imbrication between two structures of patriarchy.

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