patriarchy

“What Allie does so well,” Bieker said, “is write about the ways mother-daughter relationships get warped or interrupted by patriarchy without hitting you over the head with it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

“I Shot Andy Warhol” might not be able to make “SCUM Manifesto” a reality, but it could at least make a life spent toiling under the patriarchy that much less lonely.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

The black-and-white drama tells the story of a woman passing herself off as a man in rural 17th-century Germany to escape the constraints of patriarchy.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

The sanitary pads demonstrate his empathy and readiness to help should a nearby woman forget she's on her period; the literature that he knows all about the structural and institutional barriers of the patriarchy.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Maybe having a mom who also wants to dismantle the patriarchy and a dad who wears frilly aprons will do that.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

But it has retained the grammatical norms of ancient patriarchies.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022

Instead they serve the story’s bracingly modern sensibility, its insistence on dramatizing the injustices of the past while confronting the patriarchies of the present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2018

“I want to contribute our idea that most of human history was very different from what we have today, with our monotheistic patriarchies and their ‘pyramid’ structures of authority from the top,” she said.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

Many of Africa’s Christians also practice F.G.M., and in any event, it didn’t originate with any of the three patriarchies we call monotheism.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2014

For some this undoes all the film’s good work in deconstructing, destabilizing, and generally dissing oppressive male patriarchies.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2012