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Matrilineality 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.
Olenna Tyrell (née Redwyne) is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones. Olenna is first mentioned in A Game of Thrones (1996) and appears in A Storm of Swords (2000) and A Feast for Crows (2005).
They have aspects of a matriarchal culture: women are often the head of the house, inheritance is through the female line, and women make business decisions. However, unlike in a true matriarchy, political power tends to be in the hands of males, and the current culture of the Mosuo has been heavily shaped by their minority status.
Extreme female control/immersion: The woman has complete dominance and full control over the relationship and its dynamics (including sexual, financial, etc). Female-Led Relationships and BDSM
Female education; Female genital mutilation; Femicide; Femonationalism; Feminism in culture; Feminist movement. African-American women's suffrage movement; Art movement; In hip hop; Feminist stripper; Formal equality; Gender equality; Gender quota; Girl power; Honor killing; Ideal womanhood; Invisible labor; Internalized sexism; International ...
During the pulp era, matriarchal dystopias were relatively common, in which women-only or women-controlled societies were shown unfavourably. [1] In John Wyndham's Consider Her Ways (1956), male rule is shown as being repressive of women, but freedom from patriarchy is only possible in an authoritarian caste-based female-only society. [4]
Image credits: anon Women today have more freedom in dating than ever before. That doesn’t mean the challenges or lingering biases have disappeared, but if they choose to openly pursue someone ...
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 ...