Patriarchy (from Greek: patria meaning father and arché meaning rule) is the anthropological term used to define the sociological 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 also used in systems of ranking male leadership in certain hierarchical churches or religious bodies (see patriarch and Patriarchate). Examples include the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox churches. Finally, the term patriarchy is used perjoratively to describe a ...

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• Patriarchy - In anthropology
• Patriarchy - In gender studies
• Patriarchy - Feminist view
• Patriarchy - Profeminism and patriarchy
• Patriarchy - In psychology
• Patriarchy - Literature

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Pro-feminism refers to a school of thought developed by men that supports the feminist analysis of patriarchy as a system that privileges men over women, and also men over other men. A pro-feminist analysis of patriarchy acknowledges that gender interacts with other dimensions such as ethnicity, power and social class. Patriarchy is seen as a hegemonic gender order imposed through individual, collective and institutional behaviours. Patriarchy as an embodied set of beliefs about the 'natural' gender order (frequently backed up by noti ...

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy (Ukrainian: Українська Православна Церква Київського Патрiархату; Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate or UOC-KP) is one of the two major Orthodox churches in Ukraine, however viewed "uncanonical" by the Eastern Orthodox communion. The Church begins its modern history in August, 1989, when the parish of the Church of Sts. Peter & Paul in Lviv anno ...

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Mencius outlined the Three Subordinations. A woman was to be subordinate to her father in youth, her husband in maturity, and her son in old age. A cliche of classical texts, which is repeated throughout the tradition, is the familiar notion that men govern the outer world, while women govern the home. In the Han dynasty, the female historian Ban Zhao wrote the Lessons for Women, advice on how women should behave. She outlines the Four Virtues women must abide by, proper virtue, proper speech, proper countenance, proper merit. The "three subordinations and the four virtues" is a com ...

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Autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual. An emperor may rise to power through heredity, but is referred to as an autocrat rather than a monarch when his power overshadows his bloodline. The term autocrat is derived from the Greek word autokratôr (lit. "self-ruler", "ruler of one's self"). Today it is usually seen as synonymous to despot, tyrant and/or dictator, though each of these terms originally had a separate and d ...

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Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a composition of "πάτερ" (pater) meaning father and "άρχων" (archon) meaning leader, chief, ruler, king, etc. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is called the Patriarchal Age. The word has also taken on other meanin ...

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• Patriarch - Primates of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in order of precedence
• Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the Holy Catholic and Orthodox Church
• Patriarch - Other Patriarchs of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church
• Patriarch - Latin Rite
• Patriarch - Eastern Rite Patriarchs
• Patriarch - Historical Patriarchs in the Roman Catholic Church
• Patriarch - Current Patriarchs in Oriental Orthodox Churches
• Patriarch - Patriarchs in Nestorian Churches

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Schools Anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Eco-anarchism Individualist anarchism Mutualism Anarchism in culture Anarchism and religion Anarchism and society Anarchism and the arts Anarcho-punk Anarchist theory Anarchism and capitalism Anarchism and Marxism Anarchist economics Anarchist law Anarchist symbolism Anarchism without adjectives P ...

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• Anarcho-primitivism - Concepts
• Anarcho-primitivism - Civilization
• Anarcho-primitivism - A Critique of Symbolic Culture
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Domestication of Life
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Origins and Dynamics of Patriarchy
• Anarcho-primitivism - Division of Labor and Specialization
• Anarcho-primitivism - Rejection of Science
• Anarcho-primitivism - The Problem of Technology
• Anarcho-primitivism - Production and Industrialism
• Anarcho-primitivism - Beyond Leftism
• Anarcho-primitivism - Against Mass Society
• Anarcho-primitivism - Liberation and Organization
• Anarcho-primitivism - Revolution vs. Reform
• Anarcho-primitivism - Influences
• Anarcho-primitivism - Rewilding and Reconnection
• Anarcho-primitivism - Associations
• Anarcho-primitivism - Criticism

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Carib or Island Carib is the name of a people of the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named; their name for themselves was Kalinago for men and Kallipuna for women. They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America. They spoke Kalhíphona, a Maipurean language (Arawakan), although the men either spoke a Carib language or a pidgin. In the southern Caribbean they co-existed with a related Cariban-speaking group, the ...

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• Carib - Cannibalism and patriarchy controversies

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Matriarchy is a form of society in which power is conceived as lying with the women and especially with the mothers of a community. The word matriarchy derives from the Latin word mater meaning mother and the Greek word archein meaning to rule. There exists a different term for 'women's rule', it is gynocracy. Matriarchy is distinct from matrilineality, where children are identified in terms of their mother rather than their father, and extended families an ...

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• Matriarchy - Matriarchal societies
• Matriarchy - Nair Matrifocality
• Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology
• Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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Ukrainian Orthodox Church may refer to: Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchy) Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church See also. Orthodox Christianity History of Christianity in Ukraine ...

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Goddess worship is a general description for the veneration of a female Goddess or goddesses. Many New Age Goddess devotees prefer the term goddess spirituality, avoiding the term "worship" for a faith that does not distance the Divine into a remote, hierarchical separation. Goddess veneration may be also used instead of "worship", as it can imply respect and intimacy without undue deference. In such contexts, "spirituality" is often preferred to "religion" because major organised religions have not typically nurtured go ...

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A man is a male human adult, in contrast to an adult female, which is a woman. The term man (irregular plural: men) is a term used to indicate either a person generally, or a male person specifically. Man - Etymology. The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regardless of their gender or age. This is indeed the oldest usage of "man". The word developed into Old English man, mann "human bein ...

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• Man - Etymology
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• Man - Biology and sex
• Man - Gender roles

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St. Alexander of Alexandra, Patriarch of Alexandria, date of birth uncertain; died April 17, 326. He is prominent because his appointment to the patriarchial see excluded the heresiarch Arius from that post. Arius had begun to teach his heresies in 300 when Peter, by whom he was excommunicated, was Patriarch. He was reinstated by Achillas, the successor of Peter and then began to scheme to be made Patriarch. When Achillas died Alexander was elected, and Arius was irked because he had been passed over. Alexander tolerated him in ...

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A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. As the concept of monotheism and polytheism can be relativistic, so too can related concepts be culturally misunderstood. The concept of gender as applied to a god and goddess, may connote deeper tendencies of patriarchy and matriarchy, which ...

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• Goddess - Ancient Near East
• Goddess - Egypt
• Goddess - Mesopotamia
• Goddess - Arabia
• Goddess - Indo-European religion
• Goddess - Hinduism
• Goddess - Graeco-Roman religion
• Goddess - Celtic religion
• Goddess - Germanic religion
• Goddess - Abrahamic religions
• Goddess - Judaism
• Goddess - Christianity
• Goddess - Islam
• Goddess - New religious movements
• Goddess - Wicca and Neopaganism
• Goddess - Religious feminism
• Goddess - Secular use

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Many feminist writers have considered patriarchy to be the basis on which most modern societies have been formed. They argue that it is necessary and desirable to get away from this model in order to achieve gender equality. Feminist writer Marilyn French, in her seminal work Beyond Power, defines patriarchy as a system that values power over life, control over pleasure, and dominance over happiness. She argues that: It is therefore extremely ironic that patriarchy has upheld power as a good that is permanent and d ...

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Many feminist writers have considered patriarchy to be the basis on which most modern societies have been formed. They argue that it is necessary and desirable to get away from this model in order to achieve gender equality. Feminist writer Marilyn French, in her seminal work Beyond Power, defines patriarchy as a system that values power over life, control over pleasure, and dominance over happiness. She argues that: It is therefore extremely ironic that patriarchy has upheld power as a good that is permanent and d ...

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Theoretical human societies have been described in Anthropology in terms of either patriarchal or matriarchal systems. Between these polarities lie a number of social structures which include elements of both systems. Noted anthropologist Margaret Mead later acknowledged that she was misquoted when she stated that a "patriarchy was defined as one in which women take their husband's name and the children bear the father's name" whereas a matriarchal society "is one in which some if not all the legal powers relating to the ordering and governi ...

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Theoretical human societies have been described in Anthropology in terms of either patriarchal or matriarchal systems. Between these polarities lie a number of social structures which include elements of both systems. Noted anthropologist Margaret Mead later acknowledged that she was misquoted when she stated that a "patriarchy was defined as one in which women take their husband's name and the children bear the father's name" whereas a matriarchal society "is one in which some if not all the legal powers relating to the ordering and governi ...

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There are many things that are often pointed to to illustrate the concept of heteronormativity, both historically and in contemporary society. Heteronormativity - Intersexed people. Intersexed people have biological characteristics which are not unambigously either male or female. If such a condition is detected, intersexed people are almost always assigned a gender at birth. Surgery (usually involving modification to the genitalia) is often performed to produce an unambiguously male or female body, withou ...

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Heteronormativity, Heteronormativity - Concept, Heteronormativity - Heteronormativity and patriarchy, Heteronormativity - Defense of heteronormative structures, Heteronormativity - Social and political manifestations of heteronormativity, Heteronormativity - Intersexed people, Heteronormativity - Gay lesbian and bisexual people, Heteronormativity - Transgender people, Heteronormativity - Literature

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