matristic

This was a matristic age during which women played key roles and the dominant values were the feminine ones of compassion, community and nurturance.

Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: 'Healing Civilization' Grace Lee Boggs 2012

This was a matristic age during which women played key roles and the dominant values were the feminine ones of compassion, community and nurturance.

Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: 'Healing Civilization' Grace Lee Boggs 2012

This was a matristic age during which women played key roles and the dominant values were the feminine ones of compassion, community and nurturance.

Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: 'Healing Civilization' Grace Lee Boggs 2012

This was a matristic age during which women played key roles and the dominant values were the feminine ones of compassion, community and nurturance.

Grace Lee Boggs: Living for Change: 'Healing Civilization' Grace Lee Boggs 2012

It's this impulse, this fear, I believe, of women's abilities to conceive, to bear, to make these choices for themselves, that many centuries ago were responsible for the overthrow of matristic / matrilineal / matriarchal goddess cultures.

Women's Space 2008

In fact, the overwhelming percentage of New World Peoples, even after all the trauma and destruction which followed Columbus, maintained significant elements of their peace - oriented matristic cultures, all the way into the 1800's. has been on for 17 years is that it tries to point out on a weekly basis that the world is in shades of gray. "

- Front Page winter rabbit 2008