patriarchy

When asked by Falchuk to reflect on her “feminist awakening,” she mentions that her time in India studying Gandhi was when she “realized that patriarchy was made up. Racism was made up.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Traditional patriarchy isn’t some cheat code to make marriage happy.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 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

In Malayalam cinema, Feminichi Fathima - with "Feminichi" a social-media distortion of "feminist" - used humour to follow a Muslim housewife's quiet rebellion against patriarchy.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

Jane, your films were about sticking it to the man, snapping back at the patriarchy by showing strong female protagonists who didn’t conform to gender roles.

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

Perhaps because of the patriarchies we live within, Lispector is known for writing spectacularly well about the lives of women at various stages of their lives.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 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