单词	matriarchy
释义	matriarchyma‧tri‧ar‧chy /ˈmeɪtriɑːki $ -ɑːr-/ noun (plural matriarchies) [countable, uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But Fromm interprets it as a conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy. He found no evidence that a matriarchy had ever existed or is in any way emerging today. In particular he scrutinized every report of an alleged matriarchy, where women were said to hold political power. It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy. The idea apparently stems from that old belief in matriarchy as the only alternative to patriarchy. This is the matriarchy telling its own story. word sets WORD SETS► Women emancipated, adjectivefeminism, nounfeminist, nounhen party, nounmatriarch, nounmatriarchal, adjectivematriarchy, nounsisterhood, nounsorority, nounwell-woman, adjectivewomen's lib, noun 1a social system in which the oldest woman controls a family and its possessions → patriarchy2a society in which women hold all the power → patriarchy
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