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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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She is in many ways articulating an imbrication between two structures of patriarchy.
By repressing female sexual expression in dharmic structures, the patriarchy limits female participation at socio-political and cultural levels.
With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony.
I truly do believe that modernism trumps the traditional patriarchy because it is far more conducive to human happiness.
Some believe that institutionalized misandry doesn't and can't exist due to patriarchy.
Private patriarchy became increasingly circumscribed by laws that undermined male authority within the family.

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