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

• How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure.
• The second was that marriage is really just a legal method for the patriarchy to possess and subjugate women.
• Phyllis Chesler: Because patriarchy and ownership of children by fathers both fears and depends upon women as servants or slaves.

• patriarchate

News & Articles

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• The Best Tweets From ‘Feminist Taylor Swift.’ Yes, You Read That Correctly.
  Taylor Swift is totally not a feminist, you guys. Or so she said earlier this year in an interview with The Daily Beast. But that’s not stopping one of her devoted fans from portraying the pop star as a young woman dedicated to fighting the patriarchy.
  June 14, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Phillip Longman in NewsMax.com
  That trend "augers a far more conservative future - one in which patriarchy and other traditional values make a comeback, if only by default," Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in an essay in USA Today....
• Gloria Steinem in Boston Globe
  She was a great trained philosopher, theologian, and poet, and she used all of those tools to demolish patriarchy -- or any idea that domination is natural -- in its most defended place, which is religion,said Gloria Steinem.
• Ryan Reynolds in Salt Lake Tribune
  It's a trend I think specifically because . . . the world is perhaps moving further away from patriarchy maybe. . . . He was kind to women, kind to men, he was in his skin,Reynolds said of his character. "He was trying to do the right...