Synonyms for patriarchy
ˈpeɪ triˌɑr kipa·tri·archy

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1. patriarchy, patriarchatenoun

   a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line

   Synonyms:
   patriarchate

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1. List of paraphrases for "patriarchy":

   patriarchate, patriarch, paternalistic

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1. Heidi Lehman:

   We are challenging the global system of patriarchy, and with it come risks.

2. Van Pelt:

   This is exactly what the boys always depend on -- that we'll be divided and tearing each other down, and when we're divided instead of fighting the patriarchy, we lose ground.

3. Carlos Andres Gomez:

   The hope is... that men and boys might start to reconsider the way they want to be manly, what kind of men they want to be, when you start asking questions challenging the status quo for what it means to be a man, it forces men ... to reconsider all these very destructive symptoms of patriarchy.

4. Eli Coleman:

   Pleasure is threatening, it challenges those who are in power. As long as the society keeps women as second-class citizens, then men are in control. So denying [women] reproductive health, contraception, safe abortions, and certainly altering their body -- taking away the sexual pleasure aspects of one's anatomy -- keeps them suppressed and patriarchy in power.

5. Adrienne Rich:

   As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.