Dominator form of society (androcracy) in which men are the dominant gender.
A hierarchical social system and way of thinking where "fathers" or "patriarchs" rule which has become a model for every form of domination and subordination. Paul contradicts this system when he asserts that within marriage, women and men are equal sex partners (1 Cor. 7:1-7).
a place historically designed for the convenience of men, and stuctured according to rules that men find comfortable: a term used b frminist sociologists to decribe a society in which men dominate most institutions and use this position to oppress women
father-rule; a hierarchical form of group organization.
a society that is dominated by men. In anthropology, the term refers to a form of social organization in which the father is the head of the family or tribe, and descent and kinship is through the male line.
Belief in, or practice of, male superiority or domination.
Social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line.
a collective dominated by men, a society which identifies the male as the norm or standard by which all are judged
The oppressive structure in society that privileges the beliefs, values, and practices of men.
a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
A social system in which men hold power in the family and in the social structure. Patriarchy has more recently been used as a term in feminist criticism to describe the total system of gender relations in which male dominance has historically worked to dominate and disempower women. The challenge in trying to dismantle this system is that it has been historically naturalized to seem as though the social position of both genders has been biologically determined.
A society or worldview that subordinates women.
The norms, values, beliefs, structures and systems that grant power, privilege and superiority to men, and thereby marginalize and subordinate women.
A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men.
Patriarchy (from Greek: patria meaning father and arché meaning rule) is the anthropological term used to define the condition where male members of a society tend to predominate in positions of power; with the more powerful the position, the more likely it is that a male will hold that position. The term "patriarchy' is distinct from patrilineality and patrilocality. "Patrilineal" defines societies where the derivation of inheritance (financial or otherwise) originates from the father's line; a society with matrilineal traits such as Judaism, for example, provides that in order to be considered a Jew, a person must be born of a Jewish mother.
