Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cult is a term often applied to new religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, ...
The Cult of Domesticity "privatized" women's options for work, for education, for voicing opinions, or for supporting reform. Arguments of significant biological differences between the sexes (and often of female inferiority) led to pronouncements that women were incapable of effectively participating in the realms of politics, commerce, or ...
The Cult: An annual pilgrimage to a detoxification retreat where juice fasting, daily colonics and quiet reflection is adhered to by Lululemon-clad women from a long weekend to over a month at a time.
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States.
English and American dictionaries define misogyny as "hatred of women" [2] [3] [4] and as "hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women". [5] The American Merriam-Webster Dictionary distinguishes misogyny, "a hatred of women", from sexism, which denotes sex-based discrimination, and "behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social ...
Women at these gatherings, he says, outnumbered men; and his account has the consul Postumius stress the overwhelmingly female nature and organization of the cult. Yet the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus itself allows women to outnumber men, by three to two, at any permitted gathering; and it expressly forbids Bacchic priesthoods to men. [13]
The etymology of priestess refers to a "woman who officiates in sacred rites, a female minister of religion". Its origin dates back to the 1690s, from the combination of priest and the suffix -ess. An earlier form, priestress (mid-15c. prēsteresse), is noted, according to an etymological description via an online Etymology Dictionary ...
The term "cult" first appeared in English in 1617, derived from the French culte, meaning "worship" which in turn originated from the Latin word cultus meaning "care, cultivation, worship". The meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829. Starting about 1920, "cult" acquired an additional six or more positive and negative definitions.