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Matriarchy   /mˈeɪtriˌɑrki/   Listen
Matriarchy

noun
1.
A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line.  Synonym: matriarchate.






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... the company of his school-fellows to all others, shunning his mother and sisters, ashamed of his female relatives, is the modern individual representative of those early leagues and unions of young men who opposed matriarchy and finally brought about its overthrow and the establishment of male government. The promiscuous sexuality characteristic of adolescence reproduces the first, merely sexual, stage of the erotic life of ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka



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