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Some, including Daniel Moynihan, claimed that there is a matriarchy among Black families in the United States, [26] [b] because a quarter of them were headed by single women; [27] thus, families composing a substantial minority of a substantial minority could be enough for the latter to constitute a matriarchy within a larger non-matriarchal ...
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E. Franklin Frazier has described the current African-American family structure as having two models, one in which the father is viewed as a patriarch and the sole breadwinner, and one where the mother takes on a matriarchal role in the place of a fragmented household. [45]
A matriarchal religion is a religion that emphasizes a goddess or multiple goddesses as central figures of worship and spiritual authority. The term is most often used to refer to theories of prehistoric matriarchal religions that were proposed by scholars such as Johann Jakob Bachofen , Jane Ellen Harrison , and Marija Gimbutas , and later ...
The Mosuo are often referred to as China's "last matrilineal society". [4] The Mosuo themselves may also often use the description matriarchal, which they believe increases interest in their culture and thus attracts tourism. [5] However, the terms matrilineal and matriarchal do not reflect the full complexity of their social organization. In ...
Pages in category "Matriarchy" ... Matriarchal religion; Matrilineal belt; Matrilineal society of Meghalaya; Matrilineality; Matrilocal residence; Matriname;
Unfortunately, by ignoring intersectionality and diversity in particular, these groups can also become highly exclusionary, ultimately reifying codes of white supremacy. From The Wing (and its ...
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future is a 2000 book by Cynthia Eller that seeks to deconstruct the theory of a prehistoric matriarchy. This hypothesis, she says, developed in 19th century scholarship and was taken up by 1970s second-wave feminism following Marija Gimbutas.