Corporate America is still patriarchally structured. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 2, 2006] Reference
Or to rid yourself of your patriarchally tinted glasses. From Wordnik.com. [DNA Evidence Doesn’t Link Lacrosse Players To Crime] Reference
As long as these companies consisted of small, patriarchally-run units, their activities remained relatively uninteresting. From Wordnik.com. [The Prize in Economics 1978 - Press Release] Reference
Since the joke is about a patriarchally-constructed stereotype of a certain kind of woman, then yeah, the joke is anti-woman. From Wordnik.com. [MORE VINTAGE ADS (SEXIST ONES THIS TIME) » Sociological Images] Reference
The Signal Office was first established patriarchally with a table by the roadside, and thence I made my last journey that day to the 14th. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
As long as these firms consisted of small, family-owned, patriarchally run units, and the price competition was fierce, their activities remained relatively uninteresting. From Wordnik.com. [The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech] Reference
A nomadic, patriarchally governed people -- polygamists, ancestor-worshipers, tillers of the soil, sheep-raisers, raiders upon neighboring tribes -- such were the primitive Bantu. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
I said above that there are some circumstances where I think FF is more complicated; but on the whole I agree with the obvious conclusion that it is usually just men buying into the patriarchally approved subordinate position of women. From Wordnik.com. [Bondage and Patriarchy] Reference
So men who want to become better profeminists have to recognize that we have a real patriarchally-constructed identity, and then replace it with an equally real “new creation” — or better, “new construction” — along feminist lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Real You vs A New Creation] Reference
I feel sorry for her, exposed to the passion of a once patriarchally respectable old man. From Wordnik.com. [Hauntings] Reference
"Josephine speaks well," said Manuel, rising and placing patriarchally a hand on the head of each of us. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
Her poem exhorted women to unite and reject patriarchally constructed enmities between Muslims, Jews and Christians. From Wordnik.com. [AWID RSS Feed] Reference
(patriarchally) constituted identities that are often incompatible with a conception of themselves as persons (1997, 76-77). From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Moral Psychology] Reference
A man may be the father of a large and thriving family and yet be as destitute patriarchally as if he had not a child to his name. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
Their patriarchally exclusive souls would have been shocked and the dear fabric of their inborn prejudices shaken to its deepest foundations. From Wordnik.com. [Sant' Ilario] Reference
In a patriarchally governed society, the eldest son may succeed to the government of the Agnatic group, and to the absolute disposal of its property. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference
This was simply because he had been a Confederate magnate, and had owned patriarchally a multitude of slaves, born on the spot through two centuries. From Wordnik.com. [My Life as an Author]
Brought up in a patriarchally aristocratic and, in its way, religious atmosphere, Tolstoy, in his childhood, with his responsive soul, absorbed all he could and was sincerely religious. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood] Reference
During the last two years of his life Champlain lived patriarchally at Quebec, administering the public affairs of the colony and lending its religious impulses the strength of his support and example. From Wordnik.com. [The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain] Reference
Playing off Black people's need to have a nice, neat, popular leader and first family (we do love our patriarchally lead first families) ... even if he doesn't believe in talking about Blackness, racism or oppression. From Wordnik.com. [1TBM] Reference
It is difficult talking about appearance in feminist circles because it's one of the most patriarchally acceptable things for women to do, but personal presentation is a political action and I believe merits some discussion. From Wordnik.com. [I Blame The Patriarchy] Reference
Bishop Chane's odd denigration of the material and economic world as theologically insignificant here is astonishing, as is his whole-cloth reduction of family life before recent Western modernity to patriarchally controlled property. From Wordnik.com. [Anglican Mainstream] Reference
If this woman sets out on her own path toward recovery/discovery, will patriarchally identified wimmin, sensing the implicit critique of their own stagnant sexualities and oppressed realities, withdraw their support, their love, their presence?. From Wordnik.com. [1TBM] Reference
So snugly did I sit beside Emmeline, and so sweetly did Susannah minister at the coffee urn, and so patriarchally did the old man look around upon the circle, that my meditations were all in favour of certain measures for perpetuating the scene. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
Brenner, however, argues for the possibility of a mother-teacher’s voice and interests as well, patriarchally conditioned though these may be. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Wisdom: Bible.] Reference
Maybe there are more important differences between people at play here that we’re missing because we’re letting patriarchally-structured thinking dictate the way we see the world. From Wordnik.com. [Can *Beta* Males Be (Pro)Feminists?] Reference
Humor, that women’s patriarchally-engineered dilemmas become visible in all their absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [“A WOMAN’S PLACE IS…IN HER UNION!!”–’NUFF SAID. » Sociological Images] Reference
1843 as a fine survival of a type already then fast vanishing -- of patriarchally constituted family-life, embodying all that was grand and simple in the forms of the olden time. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
'Tis a patriarchally simple nature. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
The patriarchally raised men’s?. From Wordnik.com. [Various open pages on my desktop] Reference
I do like the idea of living patriarchally. ". From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
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