I'm torn between using the term patriarchal conspiracy and thinking of a term that's less likely to get me laughed of the internet. From Wordnik.com. [Owning the Birth Experience.] Reference
Under the systems which we call patriarchal, the modern distinction between sins and crimes had no existence. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Under the systems which we call patriarchal, the modern distinctions between sins and crimes had no existence. From Wordnik.com. [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference
Encouragement and support do they derive from James, in maintaining the "peculiar institution" which they call patriarchal, and boast of as the "corner-stone" of the republic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Such a power had not previously existed in patriarchal society. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In matriarchal cultures the roles of men are different than those in patriarchal cultures. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’] Reference
It was an agency not purchased as a result of sly manipulation of loopholes within patriarchal legal and social norms. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
It is ludicrous to argue that women should be regarded as victims in patriarchal, phallocentric America and must be wards of government. From Wordnik.com. [A New Project for the Gender Police] Reference
We couldn't help note both books concern the plight of powerless women living in patriarchal societies — and that they were both written by men. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe] Reference
That they need to feel superior – and in patriarchal systems that means superior to what is labeled inferior – women, minorities, gays, cats, dogs, petunias …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 26, 2006] Reference
Ish-bosheth across the Jordan, he proclaimed him king at Mahanaim, a town on the north bank of the Jabbok, hallowed in patriarchal times by the divine presence (Ge 32: 2). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
It lies of course at the root of that so-called patriarchal government. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
These houses impressed me strongly with the idea of patriarchal simplicity and content. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
England there is probably as much of what may be termed patriarchal life as anywhere in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Feminism includes creating a society that is less patriarchal, that is, less sexist, less top-down, and more compassionate. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews] Reference
The "ontogeny" of a single human tribe must not be a recapitulation of the "phelogeny" of the meg-tribe known as a patriarchal state. From Wordnik.com. [An Oxymoron: "Marxist Communism"] Reference
The relation of master and slave has been called patriarchal, and only second in benignity and tenderness to that of the parent and child. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
This is especially true in patriarchal societies. From Wordnik.com. [Are Men Really More Competitive Than Women? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
In some homes she saw the "patriarchal" institution at its best. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
(also described as patriarchal and bureaucratic) share a significant characteristic: permanence. From Wordnik.com. [Charisma and History: The Case of Münster, Westphalia, 1534-1535. Tal Howard] Reference
Now, the opening line of the blurb for Westward IV refers to the villainous railway owner as "patriarchal". From Wordnik.com. [Diary 7 November 2009] Reference
Families in seventeenth century Jamestown were patriarchal, meaning that the man was the head of the household. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
I can't believe so many people still say with a straight face that women are disadvantaged in a "patriarchal" society. From Wordnik.com. [Husband dead...wife gets 6 months....] Reference
I have never been "patriarchal" ... in anything that I do. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
This arises more and more from the 'patriarchal' conception of these undertakings. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
I guess I didn’t want to be known as the entitled patriarchal bohemian in the future. From Wordnik.com. [Death by Homeland Security #3: The Disappeared] Reference
This is the oldest, and ranks first among the four great "patriarchal" basilicas of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [New Liturgical Movement] Reference
We never see the boy's father, and he's searching for some kind of patriarchal recognition. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He lived generously, in a kind of patriarchal simplicity, and many of his conversations interested me intensely. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I] Reference
"Among these equatorial tribes the government is patriarchal, which is almost equivalent to saying that there is no government at all. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
A kind of patriarchal dignity to their benevolence. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself] Reference
"patriarchal" condition of life, moreover, as regards family life. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
"patriarchal" institutions, I felt it was important to lay out what I (and many others) see as a viable alternative. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
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