What's the difference between matriarchy and patriarchy?

Matriarchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A survey of 232 households of the Mosuo minority group in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, suggested that polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting many women's chances of marrying.
  • (2) They die and leave their money to their wives, and the place becomes a matriarchy.” The main focus in Palm Beach is on “the season”, meaning the winter.
  • (3) While a model of treatment based on a psychological matriarchy is no better, a model of training in health promotion with an appropriate balance of the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life gives more hope of training professionals who can see the larger picture of their patients' lives and a better record of success than presently exists.
  • (4) Guided by Freud's dialectic thinking and his discussion of the phenomena of patriarchy and matriarchy, one is led to contemplate the totemism of a matriarchally oriented boy.
  • (5) The results showed that the polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting the chances of women marrying (28.4% not married) due to the scarcity of unattached men.
  • (6) The phenomenon is not correlated with an unusually large degree of male parental investment, polyandry, greater aggressiveness in females than in males, greater development of weapons in females, female dominance, or matriarchy.
  • (7) The study hypothesis is that for Musuo women, matriarchy is associated with higher fertility than patriarchy, and polyandrous marriage is associated with higher fertility than is monogamous matriarchy or monogamous patriarchy.
  • (8) Not only must these brave men battle feminists hell bent on a matriarchial dystopia, but they need to remind other men that they are the real victims in this gender war – a brutal struggle where 49% of the world’s population must have 100% of all the attention.
  • (9) The matrilineal system should not be confused with matriarchy.
  • (10) The PC-project is bent on "transforming a patriarchy into a matriarchy" and "intends to deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males".
  • (11) Tawakkol Karman in Yemen, and Saida Saadouni in Tunisia are examples of this fierce matriarchy.

Patriarchy


Definition:

  • (n.) The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.
  • (n.) Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
  • (3) It is the first place researchers go to find out about social trends and family life through the centuries; the fact that women's lives have not been properly recorded there speaks volumes about the depth of our country's patriarchy, and how slow we have been and continue to be to shake it off.
  • (4) Being a good mother is not a scam perpetrated by the patriarchy on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives.
  • (5) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
  • (6) A reflexive theory, proposed by Harding, is used to conceptualize the differing responses, feminist and nonfeminist, of women and nurses, as alternative reactions to the many types of patriarchy they have encountered.
  • (7) "One of the main goals," says Inna, "is to take the masks off people who wear them, to show who they are, and the level of fucking patriarchy in this world, you know?"
  • (8) Without Kim Jong-un in the forefront, North Korea’s government [remains] a highly conservative patriarchy run by old men for whom Moscow 1956 is the standard for dangerous liberalism.
  • (9) The patriarchy isn't going to smash itself, to paraphrase Habermas (sort of), but nor is it so entrenched that it cannot be overturned by sustained, informed argumentation.
  • (10) And there is no specific reason why these men do it other than their ego and the fact that it's patriarchy that is allowing them to do it.
  • (11) I'm a firm believer that one's politics is a journey, and that level of thorough feminist analysis probably comes a bit later on for someone who – by his own admission – is at the beginning of his patriarchy-smashing voyage.
  • (12) However, the programme focused on women and girls (mothers, stars, teens) and in so doing almost entirely overlooked the male-dominated industry and the impact on boys' attitudes and role in reinforcing patriarchy.
  • (13) This paradoxical process represents Muslim women as victims of patriarchy who need to be rescued, but also – simultaneously – symbols of radical Islam who deserve to be criminalised "for their own good".
  • (14) The bearded men who sit in parliament are the outward expression of the revival of a jealously guarded patriarchy where a man's family is not only his personal fiefdom, but also a sovereign, state-free space.
  • (15) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.
  • (16) Middle-aged women in patriarchial societies are still widely considered as deficient and damaged and therefore can easily become objects of medical attention.
  • (17) There is another good chance that, if you are committed to global women’s solidarity, the work you do is already more valuable to women than it is to the patriarchy, and, by withdrawing it, you are not even cutting off your nose to spite your face, you are cutting off your nose to spite someone else’s face.
  • (18) In Zimbabwe, patriarchy and colonialism appear to be the most significant social legacies responsible for the family structure and sexual behavior associated with HIV infection.
  • (19) Many reviewers have commented how perfect the trainers are for "kicking [Texas governor] Rick Perry's ass", or how the trainers were "guaranteed to outrun patriarchy".
  • (20) This photograph is what patriarchy looks like – a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded.