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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 ...
According to Barbara Epstein, anthropologists in the 20th century criticized feminist promatriarchal views and said that "the goddess worship or matrilocality that evidently existed in many paleolithic societies was not necessarily associated with matriarchy in the sense of women's power over men. Many societies can be found that exhibit those ...
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 ...
Matrilineality, also called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.
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 ...
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]