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• n  a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line

• The trend has occasioned some predictions of a coming matriarchy in which high-achieving women will rule over a nation of slacker guys.
• The Illinois Senator talks to the magazine about women's issues, matriarchy in his family and what he wants for his daughters.
• His storytelling often shaded into serious commentary on child rearing and modern morals: "It's not matriarchy we have to fearit's kindergarchy, government of the children, by .

• matriarchate

News & Articles

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• WILLIAMS: Dads put the fun in life
  By the time you read this, Father's Day will be over. That's because there hasn't been a father in our family in so long, it slips my mind. Our women are long-lived and each generation of us becomes a matriarchy as the men die off. That has always be
  June 20, 2013 - Pharos-Tribune

Quotes

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• John Silber in Boston Globe (registration)
  ...a late 1980s sex discrimination case that a professor successfully brought against BU, faculty members testified that Silber called the English department "a damn matriarchy."
• Jane Fonda in The Republican - MassLive.com
  The opposite of patriarchy isn't matriarchy,Fonda said. "It is democracy."
• Sigmund Freud in Guardian Unlimited
  Freud called it the "self-indulgent fact-blind ascendancy of the matriarchy", but I prefer Mr Banks's summary in Mary Poppins: "Slipshod, sugary female thinking."