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- noun Plural form of
patriarchy .
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Examples
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Certainly feminists have long accepted this, hence our use of "patriarchies" rather than a monolithic "patriarchy."
Kafila 2009
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Fear and guilt, weapons long used by patriarchies and femiphobes against women, have profound roots, like some of the weeds in the garden that persist even when we tug and tug to remove them.
Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011
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My favorite suffragist and champion, however, is Matilda Joslyn Gage, born on March 24,and author of Woman, Church, and State which exposed and challenged patriarchies and misogynists in the nineteenth century.
Melinda J. Rising: Getting the Spotlight Back on Women Melinda J. Rising 2011
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Fear and guilt, weapons long used by patriarchies and femiphobes against women, have profound roots, like some of the weeds in the garden that persist even when we tug and tug to remove them.
Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011
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After ten years of research I have learned confirmed that women have been treated as less than equal "helpmates", even chattel for thousands of years by patriarchies and misogynists apparently not needing an excuse.
Melinda J. Rising: Getting the Spotlight Back on Women Melinda J. Rising 2011
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Fear and guilt, weapons long used by patriarchies and femiphobes against women, have profound roots, like some of the weeds in the garden that persist even when we tug and tug to remove them.
Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011
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Fear and guilt, weapons long used by patriarchies and femiphobes against women, have profound roots, like some of the weeds in the garden that persist even when we tug and tug to remove them.
Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011
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Fear and guilt, weapons long used by patriarchies and femiphobes against women, have profound roots, like some of the weeds in the garden that persist even when we tug and tug to remove them.
Melinda J. Rising: Why Aren't There More Women In Office? Melinda J. Rising 2011
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There are ongoing tensions between freedom and control and that control can be markets and profits, political power, or patriarchies.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – Faith and focus 2009
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Until the day that the sword-swaggering patriarchies on both sides get hip to the fact that their day has come and gone, the battle will continue.
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